The Red Hool Pool, which has been closed all summer thanks to a broken pipe, is expected to reopen on Sunday — if all goes to plan.
Crews discovered the issue as they were filling the pool with water days before it was set to open on June 27. Though the parks department had first hoped to reopen the pool by mid-July, replacement parts would had to be special ordered, extending the closure by a month.
Parks is “targeting” an Aug. 17 reopening, a spokesperson told Brooklyn Paper, though refilling the pool was still “a work in progress” as of Aug 15. If the pool opens on Sunday as planned, Red Hook residents will have just three weeks to use it before pools close for the season on Sept. 7.
The closure, which stretched through several heat waves, left Red Hook residents and local elected