After years of deliberation and inspections, Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) has recommended Columbia Pool be permanently closed due to life-safety hazards and diminishing structural integrity. Continuing thorough inspections first initiated in 2008, an independent structural engineering firm found life-safety hazards in the aging building in 2021 and determined it was unsafe for use. As with other Portland Parks & Recreation public facilities, Columbia Pool had been closed for most of 2020 due to COVID-19; it has not since reopened.
After years of deliberation and inspections, Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) has recommended Columbia Pool be permanently closed due to life-safety hazards and diminishing structural integrity. Continuing thorough inspections first initiated in 2008, an independent structural engineering firm found life-safety hazards in the aging building in 2021 and determined it was unsafe for use. As with other Portland Parks & Recreation public facilities, Columbia Pool had been closed for most of 2020 due to COVID-19; it has not since reopened.
What youth programs are offered this summer, and to what level, will depend on the amount of staffing that can be hired very soon by the Tuolumne County
Two years after the Columbia Pool was closed indefinitely, the state legislature passed two budget bills that secured $15 million in lottery bond funding for the proposed North Portland Aquatic Center.