Marshall County Schools’ Construction Projects Making Progress
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GLEN DALE -- Marshall County Schools is making progress on various construction projects, including the new John Marshall High School aquatic center.
Superintendent Shelby Haines said the center is progressing well and is pretty much on schedule.
“They’re working around the rain. With the rain it ran a little behind … but we’re hoping to catch up,” she said.
The two-year, $37.4 million project to build the natatorium and aquatic center beside JM began last December. Colaianni Construction is the general contractor for the job, which will provide high school students their first competition swimming pool on campus. The students for many years have practiced at the city of Moundsville’s indoor Four Seasons Pool.
In addition to the competition pool, the two-story, 68,000-square-foot building will have a warmup pool, track, weight room, multipurpose room, concessions, two classrooms and more.
A portion of the aquatic center building, about 7,500 square feet, will be leased and used by WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital. The hospital’s portion of the building will include a cardiac rehab area, exam rooms, reception area, clinical nutrition room, a waiting area, a lab, a primary care provider’s office and more. It will also use the warmup swimming pool for its cardiac rehab patients.
Once it is open, Marshall County residents will also be able to use the facility during designated times.
Omni Architectural and Engineer Services designed the facility and Counsilman-Hunsaker Aquatics for Life consulted. The competition pool will have eight lanes and movable bulkheads. The facility will be large enough to host large swim meets. It will also include bleacher seating by the pool.
Meanwhile, new pavement is being installed at McNinch Primary School this week as part of a project to change its drop-off and pickup procedure for parents.
“At McNinch we will have two lanes entering the school. The furthest lane to the right will be the lane for drop off and pickup,” Haines said. “That lane takes you in the entrance to the school. You take the right lane toward the food services building where you can drop off and pick up and then exit at the back of the board office.”
She noted another lane goes straight to the school and will be used for buses to drop off and pick up students, as usual.
Haines said administrators worked with the MCS transportation department and Marshall County Sheriff’s Department on improving the safety of the drop-off and pickup process at McNinch. They wanted to make it safer for the young children.
“So, we have a lot of small children arriving at once and we wanted to make sure the procedure was safe and seamless,” she said.
Also, the deadline to submit bids for the future new Riverside Elementary School project in the Benwood-McMechen area has been extended until Aug. 18. The additional week will allow contractors to take advantage of a new state law for tax breaks on certain materials.