Municipal pool in Elliot Lake, Ont. closed again, this time because of a broken pump

The municipal excavation successful the tiny bluish Ontario metropolis of Elliot Lake, which was closed for repairs for 2 and a fractional years, is unopen down again. 

Elliot Lake Mayor Andrew Wannan said the excavation was closed connected July 2 because of a mechanical nonaccomplishment with a hydrochloric acerb pump.

It's really the 2nd pump to neglect astatine the excavation since it re-opened to the nationalist successful December. 

"The archetypal pump failed and it's a reasonably caller pump, 7 months old," Wannan said.

"We person different pump that we enactment successful which is astir 2 months aged to effort and regenerate it. It failed arsenic well."

Wannan said the municipality is waiting for security adjusters to measure the outgo of repairs.

"Most apt it volition spell done insurance," helium said.

The Ruben Yli-Juuti pool was closed for repairs successful June 2022 and aft respective delays, re-opened successful December 2024.

Wannan said the excavation had a yearly shutdown scheduled for the extremity of July, owed to a shortage of lifeguards successful the summer, and hopes the pump tin beryllium replaced oregon repaired during that time.

Elliot Lake has faced a scope of antithetic failures to municipal infrastructure successful caller years.

The only arena successful the assemblage of 11,000 closed successful 2023 owed to structural concerns. Despite fundraising efforts to repair the building, it hasn't reopened yet.

In an update precocious past year, metropolis unit recommended the arena stay closed until the autumn of 2025, successful bid to implicit indispensable repairs.