Team effort

The city brought in a Great Bend firm to scope the filtration system to determine where repairs were needed, and then hired a pipelining contractor to come in and complete the repairs.

Two layers of decking were removed from around the pool, and a channel was excavated around it. Crews also scraped and prepped the interior of the pool for new paint, sandblasted the seam and prepped for a new seal in the deep end where leaking may have been a problem as well.

This has definitely been a real team effort, Eilts said. We had our electric production guys do work here. We had parks, street and water departments. There wasnt a department that wasnt touched by this they did a lot of work.

And not at the expense of their regular workload, Eilts pointed out. A mild winter and spring without snow storms or flooding with the associated clean up involved was a big help.

With the pools decking removed, Haynes Electric Inc., Larned, installed eight LED pole lights and seven pool wall lights, and ran electrical and speaker wiring through new conduit around the pool. The city council will consider replacement speakers in 2021 or later.

A new $58,000 filtration system for the pool, manufactured and sourced locally from United Industries in Sterling, was delivered and set in place at the beginning of May. Installation will be completed soon. The unit can also be utilized in the future at a new pool when the city raises enough funds to make a project of that magnitude feasible.

Opening of the pool is still several weeks off. Once painted, there will be a curing period before the pool can be filled. At that point, the new lights will be tested, as well as the filtration system. When everything checks out, the channel will be filled and the new decking set. And, opening will also depend on how Governor Kellys reopening plan for the state progresses, Eilts added.

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May 24, 2020 at 4:38 am by Mr HomeBuilder
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