Vancouver's Kitsilano pool reopens Saturday

Michelle Gomez · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 21, 2025 10:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

After being closed for portion of past summer, the Kitsilano excavation successful Vancouver volition reopen connected Saturday. 

"The excavation looks beautiful, clean, ready," said parkland committee commissioner Scott Jensen. 

Vancouver's largest outdoor excavation was damaged by a king tide successful January 2022, and had been leaking 30,000 litres of h2o an hour. 

The heated, 137-metre-long, salt h2o excavation is located beside Kitsilano Beach on a flood plain on the enactment of English Bay.

"It is simply a precise well-used, well-loved asset," said Jensen. "Where it's located it gets a batch of the situation affecting it." 

A connection from the City of Vancouver said staff completed repairs successful the pool's plumbing strategy and performed different required attraction betwixt May and June of this year.

It said determination is nary captious repair enactment scheduled for this season, but ongoing yearly attraction and repairs volition continue. 

The excavation is implicit 50 years old, and is successful what the metropolis calls its "end-of-life phase." 

Last summertime the excavation remained closed until aboriginal August arsenic unit needed prolonged adust upwind to perform necessary maintenance. 

"Because it's an uncovered pool, we request the champion upwind to beryllium determination for the enactment to beryllium done, truthful it has to beryllium sunny and warm," said Jensen. 

City unit are moving connected a feasibility study, according to a parkland committee memo sent to CBC News, which volition guide future decisions astir the pool. 

The survey includes nationalist engagement that volition commencement adjacent week with an online survey arsenic good arsenic in-person events. 

"We are dedicated to providing a truly well-balanced aquatic strategy for Vancouverites," said Jensen.