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The new slide at Jasper Aquatic Centre will not be ready for use before the new year.
The pool closed in September to allow for a massive $800,000 repair operation, which included replacing the slide, deepening the slide’s landing pool and other general repairs.
Culture and Recreation director Yvonne McNabb told council this week that the pool should reopen for December 21 - but the slide won’t be ready for use.
“The slide will be in place just the stairs need to be completed,” she said.
“We are waiting for follow-up from the contractors on design work for the stairs.”
McNabb said the pool should remain open while work is done to finish the stairs as the area could be blocked off.
And the opening date for the slide “could be around mid January”.
Councillor Scott Wilson said: “This is pretty poor media. The pool has been closed for three months to do this project and the stairs to the new slide aren’t ready. We are spending all this money on this and it is not completed.”
