The City of Kamloops is opening two splash parks this weekend, just in time to beat the heat.

Parks Manager Jeff Putnam says the Albert McGowan Spray Park and the Westsyde Centennial Water Park will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today through Sunday.

“Our normal operating budget and service levels provide all the water parks to be open by June 1,” he said. “What we’re doing is we’re reconfiguring our existing personnel. We’ve got litter, washroom crews and we’ve got irrigation crews and we’ve just put them on those particular jobs.”

He told Radio NL these two parks are the easiest to open on a short notice.

“These two are called flow through water parks, so they don’t require handing of chemicals and testing and that type of thing,” Putnam added. “Riverside Park is a recirculating system which has a chlorinated pump system and it requires a higher level of operating and we just don’t have the personnel.”

After this weekend, Putnam says the splash parks will likely stay closed until June, but he is not ruling out an early opening if temperatures in Kamloops are unseasonably warm.

(Photo via Tourism Kamloops)

Summer-like temperatures have been forecasted for this Friday through Sunday, which has prompted the City to open the Albert McGowan Spray Park and Westsyde Centennial Water Park for a special weekend, May 10–12. The water parks will be open 11am–7pm each day of the weekend.

— City of Kamloops (@cityofkamloops) May 10, 2019