Eventual goals for the Falls Whitewater Park include a recreational and educational facility suitable for for a variety of whitewater paddling skill levels and interests including a variety of features like waves/holes, rapids, eddies, features suitable for training beginner and novice paddlers, features suitable for instruction of swiftwater rescue techniques, a competition-friendly length and landscaping features that will make the area attractive to spectators and casual visitors.

Focusing minimal flows (design around 200 cubic feet per second) will take advantage of gradient and bedrock structures already present at the site. Combined with placement of additional natural rocks, these structures will create the whitewater features necessary to make the Park a success.

The committee is dedicated to making the park project environmentally balanced and being protective of the natural environment. While the site has already been significantly altered by the construction and presence of Falls of the Neuse Road and the Falls dam and Lake themselves, we believe the Park project can co-exist with current features and uses and in some ways even help minimize erosive conditions already existing on-site. We hope that the City of Raleigh can connect and absorb this project with currently planned greenway initiatives to make this part of the larger City Parks facilities.

Unlike off-channel recirculating whitewater parks, this facility will utilize gravity flow releases from Falls Lake dam and will require no consumption of operational power.