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Camas consultant: ‘Pool is dying’

Options for saving historic Crown Park pool limited, pricey

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Families play at the Crown Park outdoor swimming pool in Camas. The historic pool, built in the 1950s, may need to be replaced, thanks to its age and ever-increasing maintenance costs. (Post-Record file photo)

Camas leaders heard some bad news about their city’s historic, much-loved Crown Park public swimming pool this week.

“The pool is dying,” consultant Ben Johnson, with Greenworks, PC, told Camas City Council members and Camas Mayor Scott Higgins Monday night, at the council’s Nov. 20 workshop. “We know this is not an easy decision because of the historic significance of the pool.”

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