Summer Pool Opening delayed at Complex as repairs hit $300,000

June 4, 2016 · 0 Comments

By Michelle Janzen

At Monday night’s Council meeting, Walter Benotto, Councillor and chair of the Center Dufferin Recreation Complex (CDRC) advised Council that the opening of the CDRC pool this summer will be delayed.

“This year the pool will not open in June as in the past, as forty year old pipes and filters are leaking and need to be replaced,” Benotto announced. “This means that local schools that normally swim at the facility the last month of the school year will not be able to this year.”

The needed repairs come at a cost of $300,000.

Currently half of the funds are available in the CDRC’s reserve fund that were slated to be used for capital projects this year to fix parts of the roof as well as some of the existing sidewalks.

“This year we will be fixing the pipes on the side of the pool closest to the building at a cost of $150,000 and plan on completing the other side next year also at a cost of $150,000,” he said.

That means that all sessions of swimming lessons this year have been postponed from June 13th and are re-scheduled to start when the pool reopens on approximately July 8th.

The CDRC is owned by the Town of Shelburne, and managed by the CDRC Board of Management. The Board is made up of representatives from the Town of Shelburne, the Town of Mono, the Townships of Melancthon and Amaranth.

Built in 1977, the community facility consists of a 900-seat arena, an outdoor heated pool and a 4,000-square-foot banquet hall.

In 2010 the CDRC underwent a $3 million renovation that provided new swimming pool and arena change rooms as well as addressed accessibility requirements.

At that time, the pool did not have any renovations completed on it.

However, after the building was completed the pool did have some much needed cosmetic upgrades, such as the pool decking resurfacing in 2012 that was installed on the surface around the pool, as well as re-tiling and re-mabarbeliting the walls and flooring of the pool, that was not included in the expansion.