Six potential sites have been identified which could be home to a new aquatic facility.

They are Macquarie Park (Gordon Street), Dixie Park (Aston Street), Findlay Park (Findlay Avenue), Upper Oxley Oval (Pacific Drive), Thrumster Sporting Complex (College Drive) and Wayne Richards Park (Koala Street).

The alternate option is to upgrade the Port Macquarie Olympic Pool site in Gordon Street.

The consultation around site options closed on Sunday, September 1 with Port Macquarie-Hastings Council receiving more than 900 submissions.

Council director Melissa Watkins said staff were working through the feedback and assessing all options to make sure the proposed future location was feasible and best suited to meet the needs of our growing community over the next 50 years.

A report including the proposed preferred location will be presented at the September 18 council meeting.

"We thank the community for getting involved and having your say on what is a major and very important recreational facility for our thriving region," Ms Watkins said.

The Port Macquarie pool, built in 1966, has a deteriorating structure and no longer meets the fast-growing community's needs.

Port Macquarie Aquatic Centre Committee spokesperson Greg Freeman said the number of submissions was a good sign the community was engaged and interested.

Mr Freeman said it was hard to know how many submissions had long-term community infrastructure development in mind versus those with a more personal impact interest.

"That will be played out by the results," he said.

Port Macquarie Aquatic Centre Committee's submission examined the positives and negatives of each potential site.

Regular pool user Coral Maloney said we definitely needed a new pool because the community was growing and the existing pool took a lot of maintenance.

"In the busy times, it doesn't provide the services it should to the wider community," she said.

Ms Maloney said the new site should definitely be in town so the facility had easy access for the community from the elderly to mums with young kids.

Macquarie Park is her preferred location.

It is estimated a new pool project would cost about $40 million to $50 million.

Refurbishment of the existing pool would have an estimated $8 million to $10 million price tag.

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