Florham Park closer to pool makeover

FLORHAM PARK Officials dream of giving the aging municipal pool a $1M makeover is inching closer to fruition.

Community Services Director Carl Ganger said Tuesday that the borough would accept bids for the work at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5.

The contract will be awarded sometime after that, possibly in September.

Borough Councilman William Zuckerman, the councils liaison to Gangers group, called the pending project exciting.

This is going to be exciting, he said Tuesday. Well be fixing a 50-year-old pool weve never done much with. Better, were using no taxpayer money for the work.

An ordinance allowing the borough to issue $950,000 in bond anticipation notes for the work was adopted in the spring. The remaining $50,000 will be taken from the boroughs capital improvement fund as down-payment.

Zuckerman said the work would begin soon after the contract is awarded, with the pool ready for the 2015 season.

Besides a new snack bar, improvements will include a new one-half meter dive stand with a 10-foot diving board, sand blasting the pools shell and the application of a new pool shell finish with swimming lane lines, installation of handicap lift chairs that are ADA compliant, a pressure testing pool, new concrete deck around the pool with an underground deck drainage system, and installation of a steel gutter circulation system with a surge tank to maximize rim flow gutter control.

Officials have wanted to upgrade the pool for some time.

A few years ago, now former Councilman David Wikstrom polled residents on whether the pool should have such extensive work performed. The job, however, was never done.

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