WALTHAM ABBEY: Water fills Olympic canoe course for the first time (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

WALTHAM ABBEY: Water fills Olympic canoe course for the first time

12:24pm Tuesday 17th August 2010 in

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WATER is now coursing through the channels built at the Lee Valley White Water Centre near Waltham Abbey.

The centre will be used for Olympic canoeing and kayaking in 2012 and is due to be finished later this year and opened to the public in April.

Work started there in July 2009 and more than 150 people are working on the site off Highbridge Street and testing is due to start soon on the 300m competition course and 160m training course.

Lee Valley Regional Park Authority chief executive Shaun Dawson said: “This is thrilling progress.

"We will start to take bookings for the Lee Valley White Water Centre this autumn and from April 2011, thousands of rafters and canoeists will be able to enjoy this adrenalin-charged centre before the Olympians arrive."