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Aquatics International

| October 01, 2001 | Mills-Senn, Pamela | COPYRIGHT 2001 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Consider the abuse heaped upon water slides. Gouges and chips from belts, zippers, locked keys, rivets and buckles. Vagaries of weather, such as blistering heat, hailstorms, frosts and freezes. Throw in after-hours acts of mistreatment-apparently, skateboarding down water slides is a temptation hard to resist - and it doesn't require much imagination to realize that water slides take quite a beating.

Compared with dry-land amusement park rides, water slides are fairly straightforward to maintain. Even so, slide manufacturers say that park operators can't afford to be lulled into a false sense of complacency. Water slides of all types and all ages require a ...

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