Forget for a moment that the massive whitewater park in Charlotte, North Carolina - one of the largest parks around and an Olympic training ground - is on the verge of bankruptcy. Instead, turn your mind to the straight economics pitched by whitewater dreamers across the U.S. There are 86,000 dams in America, and their average age is 51 years. It costs on average $2.7 million to tear them down, but only $50k to $2.5 million to turn them into whitewater parks. Am I making sense yet? I guess we need to get more voters interested in playboating.

Tags: dam, Kayaking, whitewater, whitewater park

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