Newport Beach City Council supports plans for 50-meter pool at Lower Castaway Park

An early rendering shows what an aquatics facility proposed for construction at Lower Castaways Park in Newport Beach might look like. After hearing competing visions for the development of Lower Castaways Park, members of the Newport Beach City Council unanimously expressed support for a plan to build a public swimming pool complex on the site during a study session Tuesday. It’s quite remarkable Newport Beach does not.” The main component of the proposed aquatics facility would be a 50-meter pool, which would be large enough to host a full game of water polo plus multiple lanes of recreational swimming simultaneously. An early site map shows the potential layout of a public swimming facility proposed for construction at Lower Castaways Park in Newport Beach. Its defining feature would be a spherical theater to create a “360 underwater experience.” An early site map shows the possible layout of a proposed Aquarium at Lower Castaways Park in Newport Beach.