Katherine Town Council is unsure when the town pool will be reopened to the public.
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Initially council CEO Robert Jennings said the pool would be opened this Friday, but that is now unlikely.
“This is a precautionary move, we have put a plan in place with a two week turn around time,” Mr Jennings said when the pool was first closed.
A council spokeswoman told Katherine Times today she was not sure of the exact date the pool would be reopened.
“I am 100 per cent sure it will not be this Friday. The water is being removed and the pool will be tested prior to its reopening,” the council spokeswoman said.
The town pool remains closed while levels of toxic PFAS chemicals are reduced.
“We will take enough water out of the pool, then put in another water supply, likely the town water which will lower the overall levels of PFAS,” Council CEO Robert Jennings said.
“We will continue to test the pool water weekly,” he said.
The last time the pool was tested was on September 28 which returned a ready of 0.84 micrograms per litre.
The safe level for recreational use is 0.7 micrograms per litre.
Katherine Times is still waiting on test results from October 5 and October 12 if the pool continued to be tested.
In the meantime, RAAF Base Tindal have invited residents to use their pool.
The Tindal swimming pool has only ever been tested once and returned a reading of 0.45 micrograms per litre.
The defence pool is filled with town water which had an average recording of 0.01 migrograms per litre in September.
Experts are now trying to determine how the PFAS levels increased 40 fold between the tap and the pool.
