FLOW Aquatics Swim School Children's Group Lessons take place at two different locations:
- FLOW Swim Studio in Meridian - all Morning and Saturday afternoon lessons
- Boise Water Sports in Boise - all Evening lessons
Be sure to check out our NEW FACILITY INFORMATION.
All FLOW Workshops (4 hrs) take place at Boise Water Sports in Boise, ID, unless otherwise listed on the Events page.
All 1 hour FLOW Transformation and No Brain No Gain Sunday Sessions take place at the Downtown YMCA in Boise.
All other FLOW Aquatics services, such as private lessons, take place at FLOW Swim Studio in Meridian, ID.
DIRECTIONS TO FLOW SWIM STUDIO - 1233 N. Main St., Meridian, ID:
From Boise on the I-84:
Pass Eagle Rd. Exit
Take next Meridian Exit (By Home Depot and WinCo)
Take a right off the Exit on to Main St.
Stay on Main for about 1½ miles.
The Pine St. intersection is the last stop light before our facility.
The Post Office is on the right.
Kenpo Karate is on the left.
Go two doors down from Kenpo, to the red brick house, 1233 Main St. (Doesn't look like there could possibly be a pool inside).
A FLOW Aquatics sign stands in the front yard.
If you passed the Accent Funeral Home you’ve gone too far.
Please park in the back, enter our pool through the back door, and head down the stairs.
From Fairview:
Take a left at Main St. (Payless Shoes and Albertsons on right)
Go approximately ¼ mile.
Accent Funeral Home is on the right.
We are the next house down 1233 N. Main St. - the only red brick building on that side of the street.
There is a FLOW Aquatics sign in the yard.
Park in the front or in the back, but enter through the back door and head down the stairs.
DIRECTIONS TO BOISE WATER SPORTS – 2404 S. Orchard St. Ste 600, Boise ID
From I-84:
Go North on Orchard towards Downtown Boise.
You will pass the Hertz Dealership, Tates Rents and Fastenal on your right.
You will see the Orchard Rim shopping strip.
Turn right into Orchard Rim, Boise Water Sports is in the center of the strip.
Coming South on Orchard:
Pass through the lights at Overland.
Go up the hill.
Boise Water Sports will be on your left, but it is hard to see due to the trees.
Look for the Orchard Office Suites on your right and the Nissan Dealership.
When you see these, you should be able to see the Orchard Rim sign on your left.
Take a left into the Orchard Rim shopping center.
Boise Water Sports is in the center of the strip.
NEW FACILITY UPDATES
The Proposed Facility
The facility will be located off of Pine and Linder, across from Meridian High School. The site includes an existing building that will provide the reception area, offices, pro-shop and conference rooms. The proposed addition will be a monolithic thin shell concrete dome of approximately 6,200 sq ft, modified to enclose a 70 foot square aquatic center. This enclosure will house changing rooms, bathrooms, a glassed off viewing area and three pools off different sizes and temperatures to allow us to offer a variety of aquatic activities. The biggest pool being 24ft x 37.5ft and the smallest being our current Endless Pool at 14ft x 7ft. For those of you hoping for a "big" pool (i.e. 25 yard) that's Phase II and more years down the road as Phase I needs to pay for Phase II.
We are planning on making this facility as 'green' as possible through planned use of drain-back solar panels to augment the heating of pool water and an HVAC system which will recycle the "hot" air to heat pool water. We will also be using top-notch Ultra Violet (UV) technology in place of chlorine as the sanitation system in the pools. With the monolithic dome and the other energy saving technology we are using, this shall be the highest energy sustainable aquatic center in the nation. There is no other aquatics facility in the nation built at this time using the monolithic dome technology.
With this state-of-the-art "green" facility, FLOW Aquatics will be able to focus on enhancing the lives of people off all ages in our community. Through offerings of Learn to Swim, rehabilitation, adaptive aquatics, and aquatics exercise programs and superior service, we will provide 'life skill' development to all ages and abilities. We want to be able to touch people and help them do things they never thought possible. We want to change lives even if it is only by leaving them with the Joy that being a little more "One With the Water" brings.
The Process
09/07: Purchased property in Meridian in September 2007.
09/07-02/09: Completing surveys, site and landscape plans, perspective drawings, fire marshal scrutiny and navigating the planning and zoning maze.
2/19/09: Public Hearing for City of Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission - APPROVED!
3/24/09: Public Hearing for City of Meridian City Council - APPROVED!!
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