Kamloops city staff say inspections at the Canada Games Pool went off without a hitch.
The pool was closed for 11 days for inspections, reopening on Dec. 27. The city’s civic facilities manager Jeff Putnam says 2.5 million litres of water had to be drained to check the electrical bondings underneath the pool, which he called “unique maintenance.”
“It takes several days to drain it as well as to do inspections, and then refill it and reheat that much water,” Putnam says.
“The pool, for safety reasons, has a lot of underwater lights. So making sure casings were all sealed, and the bulbs were well grounded and all the electrical equipment was well grounded. And actually we didn’t really find anything we were concerned which was good news.
“So we basically were able to do some preventative maintenance to that, as well as while it was closed we did a lot of other routine maintenance, such as cleaning tiles, doing repairs on pumps underneath and that type of thing. Overall it went really well, and it just sets us up for the eventual larger project which will happen next year.”
The pool facility will undergo infrastructure improvements worth $9 million, which at this point are expected to start next fall.