Ankle deep water the future for City Hall pool

Defenders of a knee-deep City Hall pool were overruled Tuesday as city council voted eight to four to endorse the design proposed by administration to lower water depth to ankle depth.
That means the project goes to tender this month, with construction this coming summer and a plan to reopen the water feature and Churchill Square in 2019.
Council heard the existing knee-deep pool — the only civic wading pool left in the city — is particularly popular with inner-city children, familie