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 the deep end of the pool and the filter building basement was managed through significant dewatering efforts, while previously buried pool and building structures discovered during demolition were removed without derailing the schedule. When production delays on critical custom stainless steel gutters were anticipated, we revised our construction sequencing to keep delivery on track, and we countered an especially harsh winter with temporary heating systems and the perseverance of our trade contractors. The challenges continued below grade and overhead. Significant amounts of contaminated soil required special handling, testing, trucking, and disposal, and we mitigated the resulting delays through production sequence changes and overtime. We also integrated multiple owner and consultant driven scope changes, and addressed heavy spring rains, additional utility trench work, and subgrade conditions by working weekends and overtime. Despite all of this, the team delivered the project on June 14th, an adjusted two-week delay, allowing the Village to open the new facility to the public for the entire summer season.