Currently, there are 10 outdoor pools in the city, nine wading pools and 18 spray pads throughout the city. There are also six indoor pools, with plans to build more.
“We build these spaces so people get attached and build memories, so we certainly use our amenities and spaces to give people lifetime memories,” McGonigle says. “It’s never an easy convo to have about them when you have to talk about retiring assets.”.The City of London will be opening a new spray pad to the north end of the city before the end of summer and is in talks of building a seventh indoor pool.
Currently, there are 10 outdoor pools in the city, nine wading pools and 18 spray pads throughout the city. Generally, outdoor pools are open daily, weather dependent, but this year they opened early due to the heat. In June, select outdoor pools were open on weekends only to help Londoners to beat the heat.
Outdoor pools cost an average of $100,000 to $120,000 per summer to maintain and operate. Since 2002, the city has invested about $ 15 million to rebuild, renovate or rehabilitate the outdoor pool space. “Our infrastructure is in good condition,” says the director of recreation and sport with the City of London, JP McGonigle. “Certainly we still have two or three left that we are currently working on to make sure we can increase their useful life for the community.”There’s been a push to build year-round facilities, but this doesn’t mean the city is abandoning the ten existing outdoor pools.
“Our services are guided by our parks and rec master plan which was approved by council in 2019 and is going through an update in 2024 as it reaches the five-year interval so we can update population projections in the city and participation trends and other things,” McGonigle says. “But in our current master plan there is no recommendations for outdoor pools.”Instead, the master plan has a focus of year-round programs to hit population goals.
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