The Village of Pleasantville, NY Civil Engineer and Architect: de Bruin Civil Engineering Aquatic Engineering: Rimkunas Engineering The Scope The Village of Pleasantville, NY set out to replace an aging aquatic facility with a fully modernized one, and our team managed the project from demolition through final delivery. The work began with the removal of two existing pools, their concrete pool decks, and the original filter building to clear the site for new construction. In their place, we built two new pools, new concrete pool decks with integrated drainage, and a new filter building complete with updated pool equipment. The project also included extensive sitework improvements, delivering a complete, summer-ready aquatic facility for the community. Challenges Encountered and Handled A municipal pool project of this scale comes with real obstacles, and our team met each one head-on. A high water table affecting work at the deep end of the pool and the filter building basement was managed through significant engineered dewatering efforts. Unforeseen buried pool and building structures discovered during demolition were removed without derailing the schedule. When manufacturing delays on critical custom stainless-steel gutters were anticipated, we revised our construction sequencing to keep the project delivery on track. When we encountered an especially harsh winter, we introduced temporary heating systems and encouraged perseverance of our valued trade contractors allowing them to remain productive. The challenges continued deep below grade in late winter when soil testing revealed significant amounts of contaminates requiring special handling, additional testing, long distance trucking, and regulated disposal of over 350 tons of material. At the same time, we integrated several owner and consultant driven scopes of work increases. When heavy spring rains set us back requiring additional utility trench work, we mitigated the delays by implementing construction sequencing changes that included working overtime and weekends. Despite all the challenges the team delivered the project on June 14th, an adjusted two-week delay, allowing the Village to open this eagerly awaited new facility to the public for the summer as planned.