PHOTO: The 60-year-old pool has needed repairs time and time again over the last decade, often pausing or delaying the season.
The Walgett Shire Council has rescinded their decommissioning of the local pool, attempting to open for the upcoming summer, choosing the repairs route once again.
The decommissioning of the 60-year-old pool was announced in July to the disappointment of locals with a warm summer ahead of them, but the state of the pool was deemed ‘beyond saving’.
A rescission motion was put before council in August, leading Walgett Shire Council to undergo further risk management before deciding the pool would live on another season…