What exactly is happening with the pool?

Confused about what’s happening when it comes to our local pool projects? We put together this page to help you digest all the information.

Si View Metropolitan Parks District and the City of Snoqualmie have each spent the last decade developing separate pool projects. Here’s a quick reference sheet with details about each project as of late 2025.

Key challenges for both:

  • Neither project is fully funded. 

  • Regional partnership that incorporates SVSD is required to access state and county funding. 

  • The 2019 Feasibility Study indicated at that time that the Snoqualmie Valley market can support one regional pool facility.

  • No current options are available for an “in-between” compromise location. 

  • Other locations could become available in coming years, but would come with construction cost inflation, cost to purchase additional land, and continued delay of the project. 

  • Si View Pool is 87 years old and may fail prior to opening an adequate replacement.

  • Snoqualmie and Si View residents are in separate taxing districts, complicating partnership. 

  • Relationships between some regional partners are in need of repair. 

  • A facility that is too small will be almost immediately over capacity and also may not leave enough market share to support the building of a second facility for decades to come.

  • A facility without a recreational pool and only a lap pool will be more expensive to operate because fewer user fees will offset the cost. In Snoqualmie, this additional operational cost would not be covered by the YMCA and would require a subsidy from the city. In Si View, this additional cost would be passed on to the taxpayers.

  • Red Cross Lifeguard training requires at least 7 feet of water.

  • USA Swimming has specific requirements for pools where they sanction events: https://websiteprodcoresa.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity/docs/default-source/governance/governance-lsc-website/rules_policies/rulebooks/2025-rulebook.pdf