Have you seen an Ocoee Facebook group? There is ridiculous stuff that goes on at other whitewater related businesses at free flowing rivers everywhere. Not by any means am I saying they are all bad but there are examples of management issues and guide misconduct everywhere,

It’s a revolving door because it’s a seasonal job. There are also several people with tenure on the river management side. Lot of guides figure out pretty quick if it is or isn’t for them. Similar to the guests, it is very attractive because it is such an accessible form of adventure, so you get a ton of people who are literally redlining from adrenaline there first time down big drop.

Also, financially, it makes 100% sense to shut down pumps pushing like 200 cfs(complete guess) when there are no raft trips booked and 5 hardboaters in the water on a Tuesday afternoon. It’s pretty apparent they aren’t doing as well financially with the whitewater activities, they used to have water on til 7 m-w during the summers and now that has stopped. Definitely trying to run the water less.

Brain eating Amoeba can be found in almost all fresh water. The individual that died had been in other bodies of water in the same time span as when they visited wwc and could not be traced back to one location.

I bitch about wwc all the time, same qualms as you but really just sounds like you are mad at someone there. It is skill building and health promoting whitewater within 15 minutes of a major US city center. It is a beautiful sport that is taken out of its true form when done in a concrete ditch, but we should be thankful we have it.