By Brendan Rees
A Casey ARC user is fed up with the flithy conditions of the women’s temporary changerooms including what appears to be fungus growing on the walls.
But Casey Council has made reassurances cleaners are rostered on day and night as renovations continue.
Currently the changerooms servicing the pool deck are being renovated with improvements to walls, floors, showers and toilets.
According to council, works on the male changeroom started on 10 September and are expected to finish in late November while works on the female changeroom are scheduled to start in February next year and anticipated to take about eight to 12 weeks.
“To ensure operational public facilities during this time, a new male changeroom was constructed and a section of the female toilets was partitioned off for males to use,” Casey’s manager of active communities Callum Pattie said.
Berwick resident Jane expressed her concerns of the women’s temporary changeroom saying it was “unacceptably dirty and crowded”.
“The other day I noticed fluff on the top walls of the toilets, sticky urine soaked floors, black spots that looked like fungus growing on the walls of the showers,” she said.
Jane, who asked her surname to be withheld, said the women’s toilets had been separated by the men’s temporary toilets with a piece of wood “for months”.
“The men cannot even use their toilets change rooms in the men’s area I think, although they have temporary ones set up, families are crowding and queuing up for the family change rooms instead,” she said.
Jane said it was also awkward using a share walkway to the changerooms with men.
“We have to hear the lewd jokes from some men as we get dressed in the women’s change room, occasionally.
“I am not offended by that. It is just that the process is taking forever and it must make it very difficult for the poor cleaners to go in and out and do their jobs.
“The women’s toilets there were closed a couple of years ago for apparent ‘renovations’ also and then re-opened months later with nothing at all changed,” she said.
“How long does it take to renovate a toilet and change room?”
Mr Pattie said cleanliness had been addressed with YMCA management, who had reviewed cleaning hours to cater for the project.
