A Bacchus Marsh woman is calling on her fellow residents to help reignite the push for a heated indoor pool.
Funding an indoor swimming pool in Bacchus Marsh has been a long-running issue for residents.
Now pool campaigner Anne Cadzow wants the community to take up the fight and help raise money for a privately funded pool.
“I appeal to the community to support any further fundraisers for a proposed indoor aquatic centre for Bacchus Marsh,” Ms Cadzow said. “It is time the Bacchus Marsh and surrounding area residents raised the profile of the issue.”
Plans for a multi-million dollar indoor pool facility hit a wall when state funding was announced and then scrapped in 2013.
The push for an indoor facility has gained traction in recent weeks after residents have expressed their frustrations about the sporadic timetables for the Bacchus Marsh and Ballan outdoor pools.
Ms Cadzow said last month’s Bacchus Marsh Flower and Garden Show raised about $9000 towards the cause, on top of the more than $12,000 which she says has been raised in the past three years.
Flower show organisers have opened a Bendigo Bank account for money raised for the pool project.
“A heated pool would be beneficial to us all, regardless of age,” Ms Cadzow said. “Every child needs to overcome any fear of water to avoid drowning … teenagers, families, sports people training [would use the pool]. Others could use it for hydrotherapy.”
An indoor pool is expected to cost about
$7 million.
Plans floated by the state government in previous years have included provision for a 25-metre, eight-lane pool, a learn-to-swim pool, kiosk, administration facilities and change rooms.
