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The best way to do it would be to have the river be somewhat linear and at a slight grade so it flows naturally. When you get to the end of it you enter a Falkirk Wheel to bring you to the upper part of the *other* lazy river so you can float back down the other direction. When you get to the end of that, guess what? Another Falkirk Wheel that's right. And the process starts over. You would also need some pretty big pumps at each end to keep the water flowing, since the wheel itself certainly wouldn't be enough. You'd probably want more than 200 feet of total river with this plan, since that would probably be too short for the falkirk wheels to be practical. So let's say 1000 feet in each direction with a 10 ft elevation change. You're basically building two small carnival rides, so lets spitball it at $30,000 each or **60,000**. Plus you need some large pumps for the flow. If the river is 8 feet wide and 4 feet deep flowing at 1 foot per second givers you 8x4x1=32ft3/s or 14,362.59 gpm. In order to accomplish that you're going to need 4 of these bad boys at $21,836 each or **$87,344** The good news here is you save money with the cheap coleman pool. A 16ft diameter Coleman pool from Walmart is $398. You would need to cannabilize 40 of them for my 2000ft version, so another **$15,920**. You take those together you could have a sweet-assed river system for the low low price of **$163,264** (Just don't let the Mrs see the electric bill)