It also serves as a family water park, with guided raft trips and practice times for individual boaters.

It opened in August 2013; the following June it hosted the 2014 European Canoe Slalom Championships.

[2] The chief financial backer is Vienna Watersports Arena, Austria's largest electricity producer—hence the German language name "Vienna Watersports Arena.

It meets the minimum Olympic standards of 250 meters, 1.5% slope, and 12 m3/s (420 cu ft/s) streamflow.

The flow diverters are adjustable hexagonal green plastic bollards.