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Outdoor Pool

The PSP Recreation pool located at 425 Breadner Blvd, is a one-level facility open to all. Accessible male and female changerooms, bathrooms and showers are available to everyone who attends any of the scheduled leisure, lane, family swim or swim lessons. The pool is equipped with one diving board and two ladders; one in the deep end and one in the shallow end. For swimmers convenience, life jackets are available on site free of charge for bathers of all ages.

For the safety of our patrons and lifeguards, the PSP pool can accept no more than 110 participants at any given time. This includes patrons sitting on the pool deck, swimming in the pool and in the changerooms.

Admission Standards

All patrons who swim will have to partake in a swimming evaluation, at the discretion of the lifeguard.

  • Accompanied by a guardian
    • Children under 6 years old: Must be accompanied in the water by a guardian 14+ (ratio of 1:2)
    • Children 6-10 years old who do not pass the swim evaluation must be accompanied by a guardian in the water 14+. Ratio 1-4.
    * NOTE:  Swimmers 10 or over may be subject to a swim test if staff feel as assessment is necessary. 
  • Guardian on the pool deck
    • Children 6-10 years old who do pass the swim evaluation must have a guardian 14+ on the pool deck

    * NOTE:  Swimmers 10 or over may be subject to a swim test if staff feel as assessment is necessary. 

  • Unaccompanied
    • Children 14+: Can be on their own
    * NOTE:  Swimmers 10 or over may be subject to a swim test if staff feel as assessment is necessary. 

Personal Conduct and Pool Rules

PSP Recreation Lifeguards and staff work hard to ensure the safety and enjoyment of all its program participants. Rude, aggressive, or condescending behavior or actions will not be tolerated. Any participants conducting themselves in this manner will be asked to leave and may be prevented from accessing programs and services in the future.

Rules

  1. No person infected with a communicable disease or having open sores on their body shall enter the pool
  2. No person shall bring a glass container into or onto the pool premises (changeroom or pool deck)
  3. No person shall pollute the water in the pool in any manner; spitting, or nose blowing (without tissue) in the pool or on the pool deck is prohibited.
  4. No person shall engage in boisterous play in or around the pool
  5. The emergency telephone is located in the pool office and on the pool deck.

 PSP Recreation lifeguards and staff adhere to and will enforce additional rules and regulations to reduce risk and prevent injury.