A local water park is said to be the only water park in the world using a groundbreaking new method to clean their water and it's completely green.

Chaos water park in Eau Claire is using a fraction of the chemicals and chlorine they once used because of Sphagnum moss that's imported from New Zealand but the future of this water cleaner is a bit closer to home.

Former physician, David Knighton, started a company selling the moss after reading about it's healing effects on soldiers during WWI. He would discover it also naturally cleaned water and even grows in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota along with New Zealand.

"We're in the process of starting the moss industry for our area here," said Knighton.

"Any place i want clean water i put it. It takes everything out of the water. I think this could be something that will be in every pool in America because it is green, the price will come down, the quality of the water will go up. I see no down side," explained Mark Steil, Co-owner of Chaos Waterpark.

Lifeguards who spend upwards of 9 hours in the pool say they haven't been suffering from any kind of coughing or nausea usually caused by chlorine.

"it's been a lot better. Like we've been longer hours and we haven't gotten any coughs, any complaints. It's kind of nice. Cause when you go to a pool you smell all that huge chlorine smell and you come here and it smells like air, smells like fresh air," said head lifeguard Brandon Dow.

Even the patrons say they can tell the difference

"No, i don't smell anything," said Sidney Van Loo and her father Jason Van Loo explained, "there's no chlorine smell, the waters actually pretty clean."

"there's a lot of studies coming out that if you expose yourself to water in the standard water park or pool that you get a high incidence of asthma because of the degradation byproducts of chlorine," explained Knighton.

Knighton also says they are working on beginning local moss production this summer and the state will approve sphagnum moss for general use next week.