Seattle Parks and Recreation invites community to learn about Colman Pool maintenance project – Parkways

Seattle Parks and Recreation invitations the group to Colman Pool on Sunday, July 17 from midday to 2 p.m. to study and supply enter on an upcoming upkeep and enchancment venture on the pool. Colman Pool is in Lincoln Park at 8603 Fauntleroy Approach SW in West Seattle.

Colman Pool, initially constructed in 1941, is one in all solely two public out of doors swimming pools in Seattle and the one public salt-water pool in King County. Its scenic location on the seashore of Lincoln Park affords a singular expertise that boasts 50-meter swim lanes and occasional orca sightings. The pool is often used for follow by swim groups in addition to by leisure lap swimmers.

The present locker rooms stay largely unchanged since their authentic development and quite a few accessibility boundaries have been documented, which forestall potential customers of all talents from simply accessing the pool. Most of the cast-iron pipes and elements of the sand filter system that attracts water from Puget Sound for swimming are additionally authentic, and the primary bathhouse constructing is unreinforced masonry (URM).

The purpose of the upcoming upkeep venture is to renovate the locker rooms to extend entry for folks of all talents, present household and non-gender-specific restrooms and altering areas (none presently exist), enhance the caretaker residence, and supply a number of different enhancements all through the bathhouse and on the pool deck that may improve entry to all customers. This venture may even present basic much-needed updates to the distinctive operation-critical filter gear important for drawing and filtering water from Puget Sound, and reinforcement to the partitions to make sure that constructing occupants can safely face up to an earthquake. These enhancements will enable Colman Pool to proceed to serve new generations of customers into the longer term.

Please be a part of us and study extra. If in case you have questions please contact the venture planner, Oliver Bazinet at oliver.bazinet@seattle.gov or 206-427-9086. To study extra about Colman Pool please go to https://www.seattle.gov/parks/discover/swimming pools/colman-pool.