The owners of the Big Splash water park in Canberra's north say they will not demolish the existing water slides, but will list the site for sale.In a statement released last night, Purdon said temporary ticketing, change rooms and food facilities would be installed on site before the main pool reopened by November, in line with conditions set by Access Canberra."Now that the new site fencing and general clean-up is complete, all effort is focused on making the main pool operational," the company said.It said it would continue the work to reopen the site "in parallel with, and regardless of, the sale timetable".The Macquarie site has been closed for years and a promise that the pools would be reopened last summer was broken.Community group Save Big Splash said the prospective sale was a great outcome."This community has spent months showing up, speaking up and refusing to be ignored This was a successful water park for a long, long time."And whoever takes this on needs to understand that since that site was last sold, parliament have said there will be no rezoning.Ms Clay said the government could seize the opportunity to take over the site.But Ms Cheyne said the government did not have a position on whether it would be interested in buying the site without first seeing the sale documents.