Central Huron Council is Going to Have Some Difficult Decisions Regarding the Future of Its Pool

by Bob Montgomery

Central Huron council has asked for a report from staff to help them determine the future of the municipal pool in Clinton.

Mayor Jim Ginn says if they decide the municipality should have a pool it will involve completely taking out the current pool and putting in a new one. That would cost a little over five million dollars, so he doubts council would want to spend that much money on it at this time. Ginn adds, the pool hasn't been used for a couple of years now. “It was closed during COVID and then because it wasn't in use there was some serious deterioration, so the problem is primarily underground and parts of the deck were beginning to look like they were going to cave in. The pool is about forty years old so they didn't think it would be worth spending the kind of money it would take to fix it up.”

Ginn says there could be some government grants available to help them and the staff report will provide them with that kind of information. But without that, Ginn says their options at this time are take it out and build a new pool or close it and don't replace it.