Capacity at Kinsmen Water Park will increase next week

“We’ve had a positive start at the water park, our attendance has been doing very well,” Olsen said. “With it being an outdoor water park it is very weather dependent.”

The water park currently has a capacity of 150 people, creating long lines where residents have had to wait upwards of an hour, or come back another time.

“When the weather gets hot like it was last week, our attendance increases and some of those lineups were created due to us following the guidelines,” Olsen explained.

After July 11, public swimming at the water park will no longer be structured into hour and a half blocks. Once the guidelines are lifted public swimming will be open from 1:00 pm. to 7:00 p.m.

The water park will soon host swimming lessons and lane swims in the mornings, followed by the public swim in the afternoons. There are after-hours rentals beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Spray Park operations

Meanwhile, the city parks department will be looking into an incident that happened at the Kinsmen Park Spray Park on Friday, July 2.

The water is supposed to be operational from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the park but was not available that night after 7:10 p.m. when it was still over 30 C outside. Olsen said this was a mistake and they will be looking into it.

“We will check in to see what happened on that day, why the park shut off early. We will get that corrected,” Olsen said.

Spray parks are located at Lions Park, Crescent Acres, Kinsmen Park, Midtown, Miller Hill, West Hill and Westview.

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by Dawson Thompson

Capacity at Kinsmen Water Park will increase next week

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