As winter gets underway, many of us are already looking forward to the swimming weather next summer. The city of Caldwell is making progress this winter at the city’s public pool.
- The $9.5 million project has been in the works for several years already.
- The historic Caldwell pool opened more than a century ago, but it’s been closed since 2020.
- Caldwell plans to reopen the pool in the summer of 2025.
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After being closed for the last several summers, Caldwell’s historic pool plans to reopen with a splash in 2025. Construction crews working hard this winter to rebuild the pool that welcomed Caldwell swimmers for more than a century.
Caldwell’s Park and Rec Superintendent Denise Milburn tells me she remembers visiting the pool as a little girl. After working for the city for more than 20 years, she knew how important it was to get it back up and running.
“I’ve been so committed to trying to get this going, you know, and whatever we had to do to find the funding to make it right, because there were always suggestions like, ‘what if we put in a splash pad?’ And I’m like, ‘absolutely no’. You can’t do swim lessons with a splash pad,” Milburn said.