Paducah meets funding goal for pool

  • Paducah meets funding goal for pool
    Paducah meets funding goal for pool
  • CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY, PLANNED OPENING SUMMER ’25 POOL PROSPECTS Champions of the Paducah pool have raised enough money to build a new pool, and the plan is for it to open in Summer of 2025. | COURTESY PHOTOS
    CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY, PLANNED OPENING SUMMER ’25 POOL PROSPECTS Champions of the Paducah pool have raised enough money to build a new pool, and the plan is for it to open in Summer of 2025. | COURTESY PHOTOS
  • Paducah meets funding goal for pool
    Paducah meets funding goal for pool
  • POOL’S PAST Paducah had to shut its municipal swimming pool down in 2019 when a leak appeared to indicate voids beneath the concrete. A fund-raising campaign for a new pool began in 2021. | COURTESY PHOTOS
    POOL’S PAST Paducah had to shut its municipal swimming pool down in 2019 when a leak appeared to indicate voids beneath the concrete. A fund-raising campaign for a new pool began in 2021. | COURTESY PHOTOS
    In 2018 the City of Paducah discovered that its municipal pool had a huge water leak underneath, and staff suspected there might be voids near the drain. The cost to fix the pool was going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. and the city did not have the financial resources to repair and reopen the pool or to build a new one. So the arid West Texas town has been without a p...

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