Townsville Community Voices

Today the Community Voices Team released it's Public Pool Policy for the new city of Townsville. 

Mr. Newey said that  "Top of the agenda was that there be no change in the

public use of Tobruk pool on the strand and that every measure available to the CV team would be employed to keep it as it is". 

"Trubrok Pool is an icon in Australian swimming with such greats at Murray Rose, Dawn Fraser using the pool for training in the lead up to Olympic games " Mr. Newey said. 

Community Voices intends to continue to develop the public use of pools with the installation of a water theme style facilities, similar to the ones installed on the Strand

to enhance the neglected Kokoda and Long Tan Pools.  

"Many people actually bypass these large investments in public use utilities to drive to the Strand to enjoy the water features on hot summer days. It makes sense to investigate

the development of these water park style facilities closer to the suburbs" Mr. Newey Said.  

Plans would be undertaken to investigate other future Olympic pool locations with regard to population and demographics because of the fact that the original Thuringowa City has no Olympic training facilities. Kirwan school and the Riverways project being the only public use pools available.