If we all stick to our best behaviour, Santa may have a pool for Inuvik by Christmas.

Inuvik Town Council received an update on its swimming facility at its Aug. 8 committee of the whole meeting.

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At a cost of $488,907, the pool liner is finally complete, Campbell told council. The next step involves bringing up specialists to pressure test the pipes, which Campbell predicted would be done by the end of August SA国际影视传媒� assuming everything goes as planned from here.

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Once all this is done, Community Services director Lise Saumur told council it would likely be another two weeks to a month before the town could actually open the pool to the public.

First and foremost, the town needed to hire staff to operate the pool. Saumur said the town had been working on getting a pool director hired and expected them to be in town within the first weeks of September. The town is also working on hiring lifeguards. However, once staff are in place they would have a period of SA国际影视传媒榳et re-certificationSA国际影视传媒� SA国际影视传媒� effectively demonstrating theySA国际影视传媒檙e up to the job of rescuing someone who could be drowning.

Finally, because the pool has been closed for so long, a top-to-bottom inspection by the NWT Health Inspector has to be completed before the public can swim again.

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The pool closed in March 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and town officials decided the extended period would be a sensible time to fix long-standing problems with the basin, however as the town worked on the pool more problems with the system became apparent. To date the entire piping structure was re-worked to prevent leaks into the surrounding permafrost and moved beneath the pool, the deck has been modified for better safety, the walls around the lazy river have been raised, and both the drainage and mechanical systems have been overhauled.

Work on the pool was made possible through a $562,500 grant from the federal government.