After a complicated five months of back and forth, a visit from the NSW Premier led to the announcement that Walgett residents can expect their pool to reopen before Christmas.
In July, it was announced that the pool would be decommissioned after years of temporary fixes were proving futile and expensive, often pausing or cutting swimming seasons short.
While at the time, some parties said that forfeiting a swimming season to get a new pool was necessary, the decommission was soon cancelled, as the council decided to make short term repairs to the pool so that Walgett locals had a safe place to swim over the summer months…