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FIXING THE POOL — A worker with Buddenbaum & Moore of Noblesville is shown at the Rochester City Pool. The facility is getting major renovations for the first time since it opened in 1969. Photo provided by Kimberlie Landis.
POOL WORK — Work is shown at the Rochester City Pool. Photo provided by Kimberlie Landis.
Rochester City Pool getting major upgrades for 1st time since 1969
By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer The Rochester City Pool is having its first major renovations since being installed in 1969. New Rochester Park and Recreation Board President Kimberlie Landis said work on the pool started in November. Renovations include a new drain, new guttering, new liner and new decking. Buddenbaum & Moore of Noblesville is the contractor for the project. Landis said Rochester Parks Foreman Duane Border told her in fall 2024 after the pool’s season ended that “we were losing water out of the pool.” She said the gutters caused the leak, motivating the project. City leaders were able to use budgeted funds to cover the repairs, which Landis said cost
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more than $1,000,000. The board does have some nonessential items it wants for the pool, including a new slide, and hopes to get donations for those. Landis said the old double slide had to be removed due to “stress places.” The board is looking at putting in a single slide. If funding is secured for it, the slide will be installed in the pool’s center versus the deep end where it was before, said Lori Simpson, who’s returning as pool manager after a several-year hiatus. “It will be in shallower water so as people come off the slide, they can stand up, and it will be better for the young kids,” said Simpson. Lights are also on the park board’s wish list, so hours at the pool can be later, said Landis.
If people wish to donate for the additional items, they may send money to Rochester Clerk-Treasurer Beth Stocking at city hall, 320 Main St., Rochester, IN 46975, mentioning they are for the project. Landis said people may note if they want money to cover a specific part of the pool project. One part of the former pool which leaders couldn’t bring back was the baby pool. Landis said bringing the baby pool back would mean adding in a separate heater and filtration system. The cost for that would be more than $1,000,000, which Landis said leaders “couldn’t justify” for the few people who actually would use the baby pool. “Our wish is that we’re going to put up this nice big pavilion over the area where the baby pool used to be,” said Simpson.
Landis said that would add a shaded area for people. Plans are for the pool to be ready in time for the 2025 season, with it open from Memorial Day to early August. Landis said leaders hope to have a ribbon-cutting ahead of the pool’s reopening. She and Simpson stated the importance of having the pool renovated for the public to use, with Landis mentioning that people stated the pool mattered to them in a survey the park board did last year. “Not a lot of communities have the ability to have a pool,” said Simpson. “They’re very, very expensive, and I’m very, very grateful to the mayor and the park board and that they see that this is important enough to spend the kind of money that they’re spending to keep the facility open for the community.”
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