Kitsilano Pool expected to open May long weekend [Video]

Two Kitsilano summer staples are expected to be up and running this summer, despite the roadblocks they had last year, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation announced.

The Kitsilano Pool will open for the May long weekend—weather permitting—and the Kitsilano Showboat will likely stage a season of entertainment.

It was revealed in December the pool is leaking 30,000 litres of water every hour through damaged pipes, and a fire tore through the outdoor amphitheatre last April.

Investigations into the leaking outdoor pool are ongoing, director of facility management Carrie Hughes told commissioners at Monday’s meeting.

“Most of that is actually seawater. Seawater coming into the pool and then leaking out,” she said.

She said workers have found crushed pipes, failing expansion joins and “extensive” cracking and delaminating in the pool basin.

Some repairs have happened, but won’t be done in time for the summer and work will have to continue in the fall.

“We know we’re not going to get everything completed before the pool opens, however we’re …