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  1. Just as the heat of summer really gets beating, one of Canberra’s major pools appears to have vanished off the face of the earth, and the former owner of the Phillip Pool has a theory.

    Big Splash, a waterpark off Catchpole Street in Macquarie, was originally meant to open on 30 November, according to a post to its Facebook page earlier this year.

    However, it warned its famous slides would be out of action for the whole season due to “major works including upgrading the filtration systems on them”.

    The last everyone heard was on 25 November, when another post said, “We will be open for the school holidays, but it won’t be for a couple of weeks. Opening date will be up soon”.

    But firmly into the first week of holidays for the ACT’s public schools and the site remains closed and the pools dry.

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    The phone number is also disconnected, and the Facebook page is gutted of all original posts. The website simply reads “under maintenance” (followed by “website with tickets coming soon”).

    Attempts by Region to reach the owners by email over the past couple of weeks have been met with no reply

  2. Don’t go into the water there may be Brain-eating amoeba , The "brain-eating amoeba" is actually a single-celled organism called Naegleria fowleri, and it can cause a rare but deadly brain infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis when it enters the body through the nose.

  3. Isn't that Australia Big splash? That is exactly what it looked like last time i went but without the mold and still water , and it had water. Clean water.

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