Monday, May 13, 2013
A second year of state waivers will allow historic pool to open for 101st season.
With a great deal of work and presistence from three town departments, families and individuals will have the opportunity to spend summer days and afternoons at Belmont's Underwood Pool as the town secured a number of state waivers to allow the historic outdoor public swimming "hole" to open for the 2013 season. David Kale, who returned from a serious illness to his position as town Town Administrator, told the Belmont Board of Selectmen Monday morning, May 13, the town will also put $30,000 into a ventelation system for the filter house and to paint the pool to make it ready for the season which commencenses in late June and lasts until Labor Day weekend. For the second year running, Health Department Director Stefan Russakow working …
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Initial public reaction favors $4.2 million pool-only option; plans with playing field that is critical to building new library met with concerns.
The agenda for last night's public meeting, March 14, was officially an update of the feasibility study on the future of Belmont's historic but worn-out Underwood Pool. But the end of hour-long presentation, it was the future of a new Belmont Public Library building that was literally thrown into the deep-end as the three dozen residents, abutters and town officials in attendance were not moved to relocate the century-old recreation site up the slope of the adjacent park and installing an artificial athletic field dedicated to high school sports at the pool's current location. Instead, the $4.2 million design to rebuild the pool with a 12-foot deep diving area and a kids-friendly wading area bisected by a dedicated area for lap swimming …
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Architects will review latest information and designs on the feasibility study.
The public will get a first look at what a new Underwood Pool would look like and where it will located will highlight a public meeting hosted by the Belmont Department of Public Works and its consultant, Bargmann, Hendrie + Archetype, on Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. in the Belmont Public Library's Assembly Room at 336 Concord Ave. The meeting will provide the community an update on the progress of the Feasibility and Preliminary Design Study proposed by the Belmont Board of Selectmen and to allow for public review and comment on the preliminary alternative schematic designs of the site. This study will result in the development of design options, including cost estimates, for the Underwood Playground, the historic Pool and related …
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Meet the consultant and discuss what should happen to Belmont's historic swimming pool.
What should happen to the problematic Underwood Pool, the historic swimming pool that has been used by town residents for the past 100 years? Rebuild it? Build a new pool where the Underwood Playground is currently located? Or do nothing? In less than a fortnight, Belmont residents and abutters will have the chance to have their say in the matter as Belmont's Department of Public Works and consultant, Bargmann, Hendrie + Arohetype – which was hired to produce a feasibility study – will be hosting a public meeting on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in the Belmont Public Library's Assembly Room at 336 Concord Avenue. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an overview of the process including timelines for the development of a "Feasibility and…
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Feasibility study for new swimming facility will effect new library, police headquarters.
The century-old Underwood Pool will have a 101st season this coming summer. That was the outcome after the Belmont Department of Public Works accepted a half-dozen proposals from local engineering firms who are bidding to conduct a feasibility study to build a new swimming facility at the Underwood Playground, according to Ann Marie Mahoney, chairwoman of the Capital Budget Committee that met Thursday, Oct. 18. The six firms – CDM Smith of Cambridge, BH&A, Weston & Sampson and Warner Larson, all of Boston, Blair Hines Design Associates of Brookline and Marshall/Gary of Wakefield – selected by DPW Director Peter Castinino will determine whether a community pool can be placed on the plateau a few hundred feet from the existing facility at …
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Replacement valve worked Thursday and so will lifeguards and staff for the next nine days of the swimming year.
The replacement valve used to filter water in the Underwood Pool on Concord Avenue was installed by the town's Department of Public Works on Thursday morning and has been working successfully allowing the historic pool to be open for the remainder of the swimming season ending Sunday, Sept. 2, according to the town's Recreation Department. The failed piece of equipment located in the filter house caused the century-old pool to be closed from Monday, Aug. 20, until Thursday morning. The pool will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. You will need to show your individual or family membership tag or purchase a day pass - checks only - at the pool for $10 for adults or $5 for children. …
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
DPW is waiting to install vital valve into pumping equipment. But it could still be the final week for the historic pool.
It's on its way. While not as vital as a transplant plant or critical to the running of a nuclear power plant, this valve could save the final week of swimming at the town's historic Underwood Pool on Concord Avenue. After this important component for filtering the pool's water failed Monday morning, the century-old Underwood – judged by many to be the oldest outdoor community swimming pool in the US – has been shut down to bathers of all ages as the the town's Department of Public Works has been attempting to track down the part. Michael A. Santoro, the DPW's assistant director, told Belmont Patch today that the town ordered the valve yesterday, Tuesday, Aug. 22, and had it shipped overnight to Belmont. Santoro said that as of 11 a.m., …
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Could a broken valve cause the end of the Underwood Pool? We'll see.
Could this past Sunday have been the final time Belmont residents had a chance to take a swim at the historic Underwood Pool? What should have been a celebration of passing its 100th birthday, the town's well-known swimming pool has seen diving banned by the town's Health Department and Board of Health for safety reasons and on Monday, a valve in the pool's filter house failed forcing the pool to close before the afternoon session. According to the Belmont Recreation Department, workers from the town's Department of Public Works will "try to repair this but as of now we are closed until further notice," according to a press release. But with the pool scheduled to close in 12 days on Sunday, Sept. 2, a decision to call an early end to the…
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Selectmen will hear at its July 16 meeting on any compromise
It hasn't been a good recreational year for Matt Russo and his kids. The Belmont dad first had to deal with the closing of the Butler Elementary School's playground where his children attend school. Then when summer came around, the family's favorite in town destination, the Underwood Pool, was deprived of one of its most prominent attractions: the diving board that has been a feature of the historic pool since it opened 100 years ago. "We were hit with a double whammy," Russo told the Monday, July 2, meeting of the Belmont Board of Selectmen which tackled the diving ban in addition to the on-going discussion on how much longer can the oldest outdoor municipal swimming pool can continue before it fails. "We are being told [the pool] was …
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Department of Public Works to discuss facility's condition, plans to modernize historic site.
In between signing the warrant for the September state primary election and granting a business license to a hip hybrid breakfast/mexicana cafe on Trapelo Road, next week the Belmont Board of Selectmen will dip their toes into the increasingly hot water of the historic Underwood Pool. At its scheduled meeting on Monday, July 2 at 7 p.m., the three members board will hear from Belmont Department of Public Works Director Peter Castinino as he presents an updated version of a memo he wrote six years ago on the ongoing engineering, structural and maintenance issues facing the pool. Those same concerns pertaining to safety and the pool's out-dated construction were cited by the Belmont Health Department this month when it refused to grant a …
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In Process
10:16 am on Saturday, March 16, 2013
Bravo to the Belmont citizens who attended the meeting and thanks to the Patch for this report. As a TM member (precinct 8), I completely agree with their position on the swimming pool (and also note that the proposed field is not even big enough for a standard soccer field). I will urge the School Committee to deny the library's request to take the High School's land, mostly to be paved over for… more ›