SALMON ARM – Many young soccer players in Salmon Arm are hoping for warm weather, because right now they can’t use their indoor practice facility.
The Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union Indoor Memorial Sports Complex is closed until further notice, after asbestos dust was found inside.
Now the non-profit agricultural association that runs the facility may be facing a hefty repair bill.
The Salmon Arm and Shuswap Lake Agricultural Association says several weeks ago some dust was found in a change room being used for storage.
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The dust was tested. Association president Phil Wright says the results came back last week.
“They found traces of asbestos in it. Learning that our next job was to alert our users this was in there and then to follow up with the lab to give us an asbestos management survey,” says Wright.
Now they’ve closed the sports complex while a company determines if there are asbestos risks in other parts of the building. The results of that assessment are expected next week.
“Once we get the report we will know where it is, what parts are contaminated and then what to do about it,” says Wright.
Wright believes it will cost tens of thousands of dollars to fix which would be a big burden for their non-profit group.
“We will probably go on bended knees to a variety of groups,” he says.
In the meantime the facility remains closed until further notice. That has left soccer players hoping to practice indoors next week before their season begins with nowhere to go.
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