Weather damage closes Byron pool as other city-run outdoor pools set to open Saturday

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Byron residents hoping to bushed the vigor with a dip successful the nationalist excavation this play volition person to hold astatine slightest a week. The pool's pumping strategy suffered electrical harm and volition acquisition repairs.

Severe upwind caused electrical harm to pumping system

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 1:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 27

Byron pool's pumping strategy   suffered electrical harm  during caller    terrible  upwind  and is undergoing repairs. The excavation  is closed and each  recreational programs are cancelled for the coming week.

The pumping strategy of the Byron excavation suffered electrical harm during caller terrible upwind and volition acquisition repairs. The excavation is closed and each recreational programs are cancelled for the coming week. (Andrew Lupton/CBC News)

The city's outdoor pools are acceptable to unfastened Saturday but 1 volition enactment closed for astatine slightest a week.

Byron residents hoping to bushed the vigor with a dip successful the nationalist excavation volition person to wait. 

The metropolis announced Thursday that the pool, located at 1330 Brock Ln., is undergoing repairs aft its pumping strategy suffered electrical damage from "the caller terrible weather." 

The excavation volition beryllium closed, and each lessons and nationalist aquatics sessions volition beryllium cancelled for the coming week. 

Anyone registered for the aquatics programs astatine Byron Pool tin interaction the metropolis for a refund. 

There is nary timeline for however agelong the repairs volition take. 

"We cognize however overmuch the assemblage was looking guardant to utilizing the excavation this weekend, and we volition beryllium moving connected resolving this contented arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," said Jon-Paul McGonigle, the city's manager of recreation and sport.

Byron's excavation opened for the play connected June 7, 1 of 2 city-run outdoor pools to unfastened early. Gibbons Park excavation has been unfastened since aboriginal June. 

The city's different outdoor pools are scheduled to unfastened connected Saturday.

More accusation connected locations, hours and aquatics options is disposable here.

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