Sorry for the weird wording on some of this, I'm lazy and copy/pasting from FB posts. Please PM me or reply here:

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WENATCHEE — Have any ideas for improving Chelan County’s Parks and Recreation Plan?

The folks at Chelan County Natural Resources want to hear them.

They’ve scheduled two workshops, one in Chelan and one in Cashmere, to gather public input on how to identify, develop and improve parks and recreation activities.

County officials will discuss what has been accomplished since the last Parks and Recreation Plan was updated in 2007 and collect citizen ideas about what should come next.

An adopted plan is required for the county to qualify for a variety of grant funds, Paul Heffernan, the county’s natural resource specialist, said in a news release.

The workshops are:

<> Chelan: Dec. 13, Chelan City Council chamber, 135 E. Johnson Ave., 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

<> Cashmere: Dec. 14, Cashmere Riverside Center, 201 Riverside Dr.), 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Here is an email from Paul - who is actually a WW boater himself:

Hey there, Nate!
To answer your question: yes, this meeting is exactly the sort of thing you could come in and advocate for a whitewater park.

I don’t think there are any WW parks in Washington, are there? The idea could possibly gain some traction. We’ll never know if someone doesn’t ask for it.

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I could make the Wednesday meeting. Anyone else interested in attending? I have posted this on the Wenatchee FB Group, not getting anyone to say they will attend.

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Without a few people showing up to a meeting, I'll just look like a crazy person on my own. We wouldn't even need other folks to talk, but a handful of people showing up saying hey this is something we want will really help.

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Honestly I have no idea where to start with regard to something like this.

If you search google for "whitewater park study pdf" there are a bunch of documents out there in other areas where studies have been commissioned. The ROI on a relatively simple WW park is pretty good. Honestly, it seems that the business of doing studies on building whitewater parks might be bigger than actually building one.

The parks ideally are located in spots with decent elevation drops - like the dam. The modern parks like Bend that have wave features and a 'lazy river' section seem to have an appeal to a wide portion of the population.

IMHO the ideal design would be functional in the low water times of year. No reason to have a park going when the actual playboating is good. If you can have a park that runs during the July -> Sept range of flows it'd probably have the broadest appeal. Limited boating elsewhere in the state, so people would travel for it, and it would appeal to the tubers because of the warm water.