Photo by Deb Gau Yellow column forms showed where footings were being built for the water slides at the new Marshall Aquatic Center this week.

MARSHALL — More parts of the new Marshall Aquatic Center have been taking shape this summer.

“There’s a lot of progress that is being made,” Marshall Mayor Bob Byrnes said in a “Marshall Minute” update posted on the Marshall city Facebook page. “The Aquatic Center is on target. It’s going as it has been planned, things are going very well there.”

How much progress will be made on the construction this fall depends on the weather, Byrnes said.

This week, concrete work was going on for parts of the center’s different pools, as well as support structures for the water slide tower. On Friday, lots of yellow column forms for the slide footings could be seen in the part of the construction zone near Greeley Street.

In the update, city staff said construction crews would also start working on installing pool features in the center’s zero-depth entry pool area.

Throughout the summer and into September, construction crews made progress.

“The bathhouse and the mechanical building is up, the roof is on, the floors have been poured in the basement, and they’re working on some of the equipment in that building,” Byrnes said. “Two of the pools have floors, and the walls have been completed. That includes the deep pool, as well as the leisure river.”

A city construction update from this week also said the central island in the leisure river has been backfilled, and rebar was being installed on top of the island.

“We also expect over the next few weeks that they will start doing the final grade and preparation for the decking to be poured. They’re going to start on the west side and work east,” Byrnes said.