Bowling Green Parks and Rec prepares Russell Sims Aquatic Center for season

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Bowling Green Parks and Recreation’s maintenance crews are hard at work getting Russell Sims Aquatic Center ready for this summer.

Though there aren’t any big, new additions to the park, like the bridge added last year, the maintenance team has updated the park’s landscaping, along with the tables, benches and trash cans, making sure the park’s small details are good and up to date.

The next phase will be to begin cleaning the bottoms of the pools and splash pads, doing all necessary upkeep before filling them with water.

Parks and Rec holds master plan meetings for the park, planning decades into the future and making sure that it evolves as time goes on. They also recently released a community survey on their Facebook, asking those in the area what they liked about the park and what new additions they would like to see.

Even though the park is only open during the summer months, Russell Sims is truly a 12-month operation that sees many changes and updates in season and during the offseason to ensure it is ready to be the number one park in the area.

“Our maintenance team does incredible work out here just to get the pool ready, making sure that it’s clean, making sure that it’s presentable, making sure that things that need to be fixed are fixed and really just getting, this facility prepared for 70,000 plus people to to visit and come through our gates this summer,” said Cameron Levis, recreation manager for Bowling Green Parks and Rec. 

Now that work has started on cleaning the bottoms of the pools, maintenance crews plan to have them full of water by May 4 and ready for opening day this Memorial day, May 25.

For more information about Russell Sims Aquatic Center and the community survey, visit https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BB8q87Chc/