The Okotoks Recreation Centre's pool will be closed for the next little while as they go through one of their mandatory closures for maintenance.

Aquatics Supervisor Tim Arnholtz says cleaning a pool isn't done in one day.

"We actually have to clean all of our filters so we turn off the circulation, open up the filters and add a chemical agent that helps clean it," he says. "We then have to backwash all of that chemical agent out."

The pool has been closed since Sunday and Arnholtz says this closure includes something the Town has had to deal with for sometime but couldn't avoid anymore.

"We do some painting during that time, the big projects this year is in all of the showers in our change rooms we're re-grouting those we had some water leaking into the wall behind them."

The pool will be closed until September 12.

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