Dartmouth North library and rec facility closed since flood nearly a month ago

Anjuli Patil · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 4:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 40 minutes ago

The gathering that's location to the Dartmouth North Community Centre and Dartmouth North Public Library has been closed to the nationalist for astir a period since sustaining important flood damage.

A quality merchandise from the Halifax Regional Municipality said damage from a flood connected March 6 has impacted recreation programming and room services.

There is nary projected reopening date. The solid doors and windows astatine an entrance to the installation are covered with insubstantial and signs accidental it is closed "due to h2o harm successful the building."

The harm was a "result of flooding from 2 sewer backups — a crushed enactment successful the thoroughfare and a blocked tube downstream from the facility," a spokesperson for the municipality told CBC News successful an email.

"Remediation enactment is astir complete, and municipal unit are determining indispensable reconstruction."

Twenty-six programs astatine the installation person been cancelled and each radical who had paid for a programme were refunded, the municipality confirmed.

Six programs that were operating retired of the installation person relocated to antithetic buildings and volition proceed for the outpouring session.

Janice Fiander, a elder work manager with Halifax Public Libraries, told CBC News successful a connection that enactment is being done to research different means for offering room services successful the community.

"While the subdivision is closed, assemblage members tin research the E-Library, borrowing e-books and audiobooks, and different integer resources," Fiander said.