Cressona says it has with the state’s Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources regarding future plans for its public swimming pool and plans to meet with designers in the next week.
Before the beginning of the summer, Cressona officials made the decision to close the pool for the 2025 season due to structural issues that developed over the last winter.
The borough is currently facing what it believes is a six-figure repair bill and has been exploring funding sources since making that decision to close the pool. It’s also working on design plans for the pool before it’s reopened.
At its regular Borough Council meeting on Monday, President Linda Walinsky said Cressona met with DCNR regarding feasibility study requirements and timelines for funding sources for pool renovations.
The next step is to meet with pool designers over the next week or so.
“Hopefully, we’ll have some solid figures upcoming over the next couple weeks,” Walinsky said.
In the past, Cressona officials said they believed the cost to repair the pool could cost around $200,000.
When the Borough announced that it wasn’t opening the pool this year, a representative from the American Legion in Cressona approached council members with a deed to the property, claiming it had a clause that reverted ownership of the land on which the pool is located back to his organization after a year of inactivity.
Cressona officials have since said they’ll fight any attempt to seize the land and that there’s no evidence in the lease that supports the Legion’s claim. Nothing has happened since that one and only interaction.
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