Webber Park Natural Swimming Pool
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Client Name
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Completion Year
2015
Landform led the design efforts, including civil engineering, landscape architectural design, and construction administration services. Landform coordinated with an architect and an overseas natural swimming pool consultant on the design and implementation portions.
As the first chemical-free, all-natural public swimming pool in the United States, the Webber Natural Swimming Pool is a self-contained swimming facility that uses plants and natural microbes from a nearby regeneration pond to clarify and purify the water instead of chemicals for sterilization or disinfection.
We are very excited to share that this project won the Top Projects of 2015 Award with the prestigious publication Finance & Commerce.
Webber Swimming Pool was part of the phase I master plan improvements that included:
- 16,800 square foot Swimming Area and Lap Pool.
- 4,500 square foot Wading Pool.
- A 16,250-square-foot Regeneration Basin provides natural filtration, with plants and microbes providing biological cleaning of the water. Over 7,600 plants and 36 different species of plants are within the regeneration basin.
- A 2,950-square-foot multi-purpose, temperature-controlled “Bathhouse” with common spaces, restrooms, sand beach play areas, grassy lounge areas, and outdoor pool-side showers.
- Winter warming house spaces for ice skating and hockey ponds for winter activities.
- 74-Stall parking lot expansion/reconstruction.
- New walking/biking paths.
- Other amenities include relocation/reuse of historic park benches, bike racks, rain gardens, site lighting, site fencing, accommodation for food trucks, and more.