Contractors at the Mount Hot Pools were able to show Tauranga City Councillors this week where they think all the leaks, which have caused the pools' closure, are.

Tauranga City Aquatics Ltd chief executive Tania Delahunty says a couple of voids have been found since excavations began.

See video below of TCAL CEO Tania Delahunty discussing the proposed redevelopment of the Mount Hot Pools.

The pools are currently undergoing emergency repairs, which are basically the restoration part of the stalled redevelopment project.

'We are not repairing the pipes, there's no point,” says Tania.

'The pipes have been in the ground since the ‘80s.

'We are replacing all the pipes now, and making some pipes redundant so we don't have to go through the process of excavating them.”

In TCAL's original report to the council in 2005-2006 the pools management company said then that the hot pools were old and the infrastructure was at risk.

'And as part of spending near $2 million we estimated to fix the old pipes, we want to do a redevelopment to help fund all of this and we can do it at the same time,” says Tania.

The plan was to have a staged closure, build the new change rooms, some new pools and open them, then go back and retro fit the old facility so there would only be part of the facility closed at the one time.

But the leak forced the closure.

The hot pools are expected to re-open on September 18.