By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
The official start to pool season is just over a month out. The City of Great Bend still has lifeguard positions listed on their job openings page and pool preparation is underway at the Wetlands Waterpark.
Great Bend Assistant City Administrator Logan Burns said all the steps are being taken to open the pool over the Memorial Day weekend.
"We have platforms for the slides that are being repaired with some new fiberglass coating," said Burns. "We've already completed a repair on one of the smaller slides in the kid's section. We have six new picnic tables that are being assembled."
The pool will get power washed, the seams will get re-caulked, crews will repaint the pool and eventually fill it up with water in mid-May.
Burns also updated the Great Bend City Council this week on the splash pad project at Veterans Memorial Park. Fencing is set to begin this week with framing possibly starting over the weekend on the 50' x 70' water feature.