The pool opened the next day via a back entrance only 30 minutes later than its normal time.

The hotel's health club and indoor pool will not open until March, he added.

The mayor's office said the pools would open by midsummer.

Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers - twice the national average.

In 1960, the physical education centre and swimming pool opened.

"When the pools opened in the summer of 1936, some 45,000 people used then."

The pool then opened in 1954, and the next year the city decided to keep it operating seven days a week during the summer.

The new pool opened to the public June 2, 2007.

- The pool opens from 9am to 6pm until September 4.

When the pool first opened, a family membership cost $35.