CHARLOTTE, NC (AP/WCMH) – The whitewater channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in North Carolina are scheduled to reopen today, six weeks after a visitor died from a brain-eating amoeba.

Local news outlets report the center is scheduled to reopen on Wednesday. It shut down its whitewater rafting course on June 23 after 18-year-old Lauren Seitz of Westerville, Ohio, died from an infection caused by the amoeba. Channels at the center were drained after the water tested positive for the brain-eating amoeba in June.

Mecklenburg County health officials have described a plan to monitor water at the center, which installed a new chlorination system to kill microbes. The county will watch the center weekly through August, but reduce visits in September and for the rest of the year.

Jim Wilson, senior pastor at Church of the Messiah United Methodist Church in Westerville, said Seitz was part of his church’s youth music ministry group.

“She was an incredible person, so full of life,” Wilson said.

Wilson told NBC4 the group of 32 students traveled from Ohio to West Virginia and North Carolina, singing at churches and nursing homes.

“They had one day of recreation where they stopped at the U.S. Whitewater Center and went whitewater rafting and they had a grand day,” Wilson said.

The scientific name of the “brain-eating” amoeba is Naegleria fowleri , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It “is commonly found in warm freshwater (e.g. lakes, rivers, and hot springs) and soil.” It can also occur when contaminated water from other sources, such as “inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated and contaminated tap water,” enters through the nose. The CDC says it cannot be contracted by swallowing tainted water.

It causes a “rare and devastating” infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis that is almost always fatal.