Somewhere, Over the Rainbow . . .

When it is finally finished, Falls Village will have one of the most beautiful and user-friendly public swimming pools in the region, but when will that day come? I took a walk over to the pool on Mother's Day, and was encouraged because progress had been made since I "trespassed" in the fall. (Last time I entered from Route 126, but this time I used the Route 63 entrance.) It appears that much of the plumbing for the pool house has been done and the concrete decking is nearly complete, but, alas, it still looks like a construction site. Pictured below is the walk-in shallow end that should be popular with toddlers and their parents someday . . . . I asked the First Selectman, Pat Mechare, about the project's status and she answered promptly in an email. Here is her exact response:
"The pool, for sure, is a work in progress. “Things” are finally beginning to move along. We hope that the majority of the concrete work will be done within the week. The final (we hope) pool house plans have been in the hands of the building inspector for several weeks. The donor of the wood for the pool house, I think, is hoping to make contact this week with the building inspector to obtain the permit. Then he will cut the frame and siding. Since everything is donated I’m not sure how long the cutting of the material will take. Volunteers, we anticipate, will be completing the finish work. As soon as the concrete decking around the pool, the surge tank pad and the tank itself is ready to go, the pool people will come back and drain the pool to complete the work on the walls and floor. After that the pool will have to be filled again and the water treated to the State standards. Fencing will have to be placed and there will have to be some landscaping work inside the fencing completed and some sort of parking area, at least, preliminarily done. As you can determine there are many larger and little things that need to be finished. The pool committee is meeting tomorrow and I hope after that meeting there will be a better sense of exactly where we are. At the pace we seem to be moving and since so much of this last phase will be completed by volunteer effort I think it would be difficult to assume that we’ll be opened by July, but we’ll see what the committee thinks tomorrow."