LAWTON – Municipal aquatic features will open soon, prior to the Memorial Day holiday May 31.
• City splash pads will open to the public on Saturday. Those include Clement Washington Sr. splash pad at 6th and Belmont (operating from noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays), and Elmer Thomas Park splash pad at 2nd and Ferris (operating between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays).
The Clement Washington splash pad is an 8,000-gallon recycled system.
The Elmer Thomas splash pad is a flow-through system with a maximum capacity at 144 gallons per minute. It operates by pressing an activator that triggers water to flow to the water features. Each activated sequence has a run time of four minutes.
The E.T. spray pad consumes 40,000 to 45,000 gallons of treated water per day, city officials report.
• Wading pools will open Tuesday, May 25. Those pools are in Harmon Park (14th and Bell), Mocine Park (9th and Douglass), and the 35th Division Park (6th and Columbia). All three wading pools will be open Mondays through Fridays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Although the wading pool in 35th Division Park is about a century old, dilapidated and leaky, “It has not been fully renovated but has been repaired as needed and is operational,” city Community Relations Director Tiffany Martinez Vrska said.
• The 156,000-gallon municipal pool, at 11th and J in Mattie Beal Park, will resume operation May 25. It will be open to the public 1-6 p.m.
Tuesdays through Sundays. Admission is $2 for youths/ students and $3 for adults.
None of the municipal aquatic features is metered, city officials said.