{"id":7219,"date":"2024-04-29T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:16:50","slug":"milton-centennial-pool-wont-reopen-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/04\/29\/milton-centennial-pool-wont-reopen-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Centennial Pool won’t reopen this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Milton Centennial Pool suffered severe damage in last July’s torrential rains and floods. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Milton Centennial Pool will remain closed this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very, very unfortunate, but the Milton pool will not be opening this year,\u201d Region of Queens Mayor Darlene Norman said Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pool suffered significant damage in last July\u2019s torrential rains and floods. Councillors heard Monday that it would cost from $100,000 to $150,000 to fix the pool.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rains and flooding last summer damaged the pool liner. Even though the region ordered a new liner immediately, it arrived only in late December. So staff winterized the structure as best they could, according to Adam Grant, the region\u2019s director of engineering and public works.<\/span><\/p>\n

This spring, the region\u2019s staff discovered the base of the pool had been damaged even further.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grant said it would take about 12 weeks to do the work, with the \u201cbest-case scenario\u201d of having the pool open by August.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Darlene Norman said the North Queens Aquatic Centre in Caledonia will be open.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, for this summer we will be unable to provide seasonal swimming lessons at Milton pool,” Norman said in an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We did make the decision and we made it now so that we don’t have people’s hopes up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The region is going ahead with hiring lifeguards for the pool in Caledonia. CAO Cody Joudry said the pool staff hired will be employed for the whole summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Councillors decided to keep the $40,000 budgeted for Milton pool operations in this year\u2019s budget. They suggested that money could go toward extending the hours at the pool in Caledonia, covering mileage for lifeguards who have to travel to Caledonia or working out a deal with Queens County Transit to provide transportation for pool users in south Queens to north Queens.<\/span><\/p>\n

They asked staff to report back with recommendations on what to do this summer and next year, until the new outdoor pool at Queens Place Emera Centre can be built.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Friday, Queens MLA Kim Masland announced $2.2 million in provincial funding toward the $7.2-million pool. The region has already committed $2 million, with another $3 million coming from a private anonymous donor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Norman said last week that the region hopes to start construction in spring 2025, with an opening in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/miltonpoolclosestoryapr2924.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Milton Centennial Pool will remain closed this summer. \u201cIt is very, very unfortunate, but the Milton pool will not be opening this year,\u201d Region of Queens Mayor Darlene Norman said Monday. The pool suffered significant damage in last July\u2019s torrential rains and floods. Councillors heard Monday that it would cost from $100,000 to $150,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[958,358,1427,79,2108,102,257,614,258,647,24,2106,2107],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-adam-grant","tag-caledonia","tag-cody-joudry","tag-darlene-norman","tag-july-floods","tag-milton","tag-milton-centennial-pool","tag-milton-pool","tag-north-queens-aquatic-centre","tag-pool","tag-region-of-queens","tag-swimming","tag-swimming-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}