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JANUARY 22, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 10
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Kamloops was extremely hazy on Aug. 19, 2010, when smoke from forest fires in the Cariboo settled over the city. According to a new study, November is the worst month for air quality in Kamloops, followed by August. KTW FILE PHOTO
$3-million tab to fix TCC’s pool walls ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
For the second time in as many years, the City of Kamloops is facing major repairs to the walls of the Tournament Capital Centre. At a Tuesday, Jan. 20, budget meeting, parks, recreation and cultural services director Byron McCorkell told council the city needs to spend nearly $3 million to repair the roof and walls of the Canada Games Aquatic Centre. The city allocated $350,000 in last year’s budget to repair what was initially thought to be a leaky roof, but McCorkell said a closer examination of the building has shown the combination of spray-Styrofoam insulation and stucco used in the pool’s walls isn’t keeping moisture out. “The water right now is coming down off the roof inside the wall, which it’s not supposed to be doing,” McCorkell said. “We’re basically going to be rebuilding the outside of the building to seal it up.” If the project sounds familiar, it’s because the city just spent more than $800,000 on similar repairs to the other, newer half of the TCC, which had developed several persistent leaks due to the improper design and construction of its vapour barrier. Though the city hopes it can get contractors D&T Developments and Stantec Architecture to cover the costs of that repair (the issue is still with the city’s lawyers), McCorkell
The repair cost for the Canada Games Aquatic Centre is the largest singleticket item on this year’s list of supplemental budget requests.
said there is no going back to the builders of the pool, who did the work in the early 1990s. “There’s no way to go back to anybody and say, you shouldn’t have done that, because there were other pools that were designed like that,” McCorkell said. “It must have been an industry discussion at the time that, hey, this would be great, but it didn’t work.” McCorkell said buildings housing other pools of similar design in B.C. have already been repaired, most recently in Delta, because of moisture issues. The repair cost is the largest single-ticket item on this year’s list of supplemental budget requests from staff and the community. Acting director of finance Doug Stewart told council money for the project could come from gas and gambling funds, or from a sewer levy paid by the Tk’emlups Indian Band in exchange for service, the proceeds of which are earmarked for recreation projects.
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