Swimming pool in Dawson City, Yukon, temporarily closed due to contaminated water

Chris MacIntyre · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 13, 2025 4:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The excavation successful Dawson City, Yukon, opened for the play conscionable a fewer weeks agone but is now temporarily closed.

A h2o illustration precocious taken from the excavation showed a level of contamination that did not conscionable wellness and information standards.

Paul Robitaille is the town's recreation manager.

He couldn't accidental wherever the contaminants came from oregon what they were but said it's not uncommon for this to hap occasionally.

"Staff is connected it," Robitaille told CBC News connected Friday. "We did immoderate caller balancing past night, and sending successful immoderate samples contiguous and time hoping that it'll each get fixed and acceptable to go, and we'll get the excavation unfastened successful arsenic small clip arsenic possible."

In the meantime, Robitaille said each programming astatine the swimming excavation is cancelled until the contented is resolved.

No timeline has been fixed for erstwhile the excavation volition reopen but Robitaille said the nationalist volition beryllium notified erstwhile it does.

He said radical tin interaction the town's recreation bureau directly, oregon look connected the town's website for much information.

"Safety astatine the excavation is our fig 1 priority," Robitaille said. "We volition get it unfastened arsenic soon arsenic we tin due to the fact that we cognize it's an important time, and a blistery clip of twelvemonth — radical privation to beryllium successful the water."