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The New Leisurelink
A glimpse inside the new Leisurelink gym and aquatic centre being built at Waurn Ponds.
The artist’s impression - the work of local artist Mark Cairns - shows what the pool hall and water park will look like.
Construction of the $31 million centre has passed the halfway mark with the walls and windows being installed and the 50-metre pool - a legacy of the 2007 World Swimming Championships - now assembled.
Being built at the corner of Pioneer Rd and Princes Hwy in Waurn Ponds, the new Leisurelink will be the first facility in the region to have a competition standard pool plus an undercover water park - with removable walls - that can be used throughout the year.
The new Leisurelink is expected to open early next year.
Features will include:
- An 8-lane 50-metre competition standard swimming pool with ramp access and boom enabling it to be divided into two 25-metre pools.
- A state-of-the-art gym and aerobics complex with greater floor space and a wider range of equipment.
- Cannon Bowl Waterslide: A 12m to 15m high slide featuring a large bowl (diameter of 12m) which swirls swimmers around before dropping them out of a hole into a pool.
- The Black Hole Waterslide: A 12m to 15m high twisting tube ride in total darkness until swimmers reach the final splashdown.
- Water Adventure Park featuring water cannons, an overhead tipping bucket and a spinning water wheel.
- Kids’ splash pad: rubber flooring play space with water shooting from fountains and jets at random.
- A learn to swim pool.
- A hydro pool with ramp access.
- Spa/Sauna.
- State-of-the-art gym and group exercise rooms.
- Multi purpose rooms.
- Separate pool and gym change facilities.
The City of Greater Geelong has provided $28 million for the new Leisurelink and the State Government has contributed $2 million plus the 50-metre legacy pool.
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