College Station City Council members will be asked Monday, Nov. 16, to approve a $678,500 purchase order with Splashtacular for a new three-slide complex at Adamson Lagoon, the city pool whose current slides an engineering review said should come down.
According to the staff summary in the council packet posted Tuesday, Dudley Engineering assessed the existing slide structure in 2025 and recommended removing the slides and their structure and putting up a new one. The replacement would swap today's two-slide setup for three slides without changing the pool itself.
What the money buys
The purchase covers the slide bodies and the steel support tower only. Installation will come later under a separate construction contract that the council would approve on its own, the summary says. The vendor's quote lists footings, plumbing, electrical work, deck repairs and demolition as exclusions to be handled by others.
The quote describes three rides off a tower about 22 feet tall:
- an open 42-inch slide roughly 164 feet long,
- an enclosed 32-inch tube slide about 156 feet long,
- and a shorter 57-foot speed slide that is partly enclosed.
A fabric canopy would cover the platform where riders start.
Staff plan to buy the equipment through the BuyBoard cooperative purchasing program, which the city says relies on contracts that were already competitively solicited. Staff recommend approval.
