HANOVER TWP., Pa. – Plans for a brand new municipal swimming pool in Hanover Township, Northampton County, are transferring ahead to the design section after Tuesday evening’s board of supervisors assembly.
The board approved the agency overseeing the deliberate renovations of the pool to organize bid paperwork and advance to the subsequent section of the design.
The venture is estimated to price $5 million and can embrace most of the options advised throughout a neighborhood discussion board of 100 folks and in on-line surveys, stated Joseph Powell of BKP Architects, Philadelphia.
The township’s supervisors employed BKP final June for $29,120 to find out the very best plan of action for the leaking 40-year-old pool on Jacksonville Highway, which has cracked underground pipes and has been closed since June 2019. The township hopes to open the brand new pool subsequent yr.
Throughout his casual presentation to the board, Powell stated the pool and its surrounding grounds, when accomplished, can be finest described as an “aquatic leisure campus.”
Options of the pool, which can be utterly fenced for security and safety, will embrace a splash pad, a slide, a wading pool, underwater seating, a zero-depth entry space and lanes for aggressive swimming.
Different additions will embrace a snack stand, entry for meals vans, lighting, restrooms, a devoted space for lifeguards and their tools, a check-in space for company, canopy-covered areas for shade, and bushes that will not shed their leaves, to maintain the pool clear.
Powell stated the plan additionally requires establishing an awesome garden, the place the township may host outside occasions throughout and past the pool season.
BKP can be working with a technical engineer to pump concrete into the bottom to stabilize and mitigate settlement of the brand new pool, Powell stated. The bottom underneath the pool comprises water-soluble limestone that’s susceptible to sinkholes. When the bottom strikes, the pool’s pipes break.
Powell stated BKP ought to be able to go to bid for the work on the pool by August or September.
Township Supervisor John Finnigan Jr. suggested the board to maintain the venture transferring due to the spiking prices of constructing supplies.
