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Closure[edit]

I am striking the subheading regarding closure of the park. There are multiple theme parks operating within the state including Weeki Wachee Springs which continue to operate in natural bodies of water. The claim purporting this reason is uncited and I am unable to verify its legitimacy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ThomasAndrewNimmo (talk • contribs) 19:47, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My impression is that certain measures would have had to be taken that Disney wasn't willing to take, due to the use of a natural body of water. I'll see if I can dig up a reference, but I'm not holding my breath, either. Powers ^T 12:32, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So... why DID it close then? There has to be info somewhere. -Abelhawk (talk) 20:30, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A combination of factors; it was too small for the growing popularity of water parks, and it used a natural body of water which resulted in a number of additional complications. Powers ^T 19:04, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a source on the closure. [1] It wasn't due to "new laws"; I deleted the unsourced statement that it was. —MillingMachine (talk) 03:56, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article about a boy's death and brain eating amoeba[edit]

Yesterland did an article about River Country and how a boy was killed there due to Brain eating amoeba, but they do point out that the park closed 21 years after that boys death. ^[1] 75.157.251.9 (talk) 18:32, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

While this is interesting, and there appears to be an AP story about this, this is still a fan-site with no oversight. If someone could find the original news article (the Yesterland site said it ran in the Orlando Sentinel on August 28, 1980) and thus verify everything in the Yesterland article is correct, then I think it would be a worthwhile addition, although like other such incidents, it would go in the Incidents at Walt Disney World article. --McDoob AU 93 18:53, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://yesterland.com/rivercountry.html

Where is it now?[edit]

Does anyone know what happenned to it or where it is today? Just Curious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guitar Hero: Mario Mix (talk • contribs) 20:18, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's still in the same location it always was, just not operational. Powers ^T 13:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of original research sourced to a couple of blogs[edit]

I see that this has been discussed before on this talk page, but I notice that a lot of the info that's been removed for being unreliably sourced has been re-added. I'm going to remove anything that's not reliably sourced, because there's a ton of it. LAroboGuy (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Research and structure[edit]

I appreciate the timeline of events since it first opened and the list of attractions at the park, as they both provide a more visual picture of the park and the history of the park. The article explains that the park was shut down, but doesn't include any information about why it was shut down. I would also like to see mentioned any information about the the average amount of customers attending the park per year or any general information about its popularity, just to clarify the value of this particular park. I also suggest that the "Planned hotel" title be changed to "Future Plan" or "Future Project" to make the structure of the article flow. C.lasia (talk) 16:43, 24 June 2019 (UTC)C.lasia[reply]

amoeba ??[edit]

"One death was from the amoeba in the water" - you just cannot state that without any further expanation! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.71.62.103 (talk) 11:39, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://yesterland.com/rivercountry.html

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