Nine months after the Curley Center reopened its doors in South Boston after a $31.2 million renovation, a clogged drain combined with Thursday’s wicked rain caused the facility to close Friday.

But a spokesperson for the Boston Centers for Youth and Families has good news for members who are looking to get back on workout mode: The popular center on L Street will reopen Saturday with normal hours.

“The center had a backed up drain due in part to people flushing things they shouldn’t and partly due to all the rain,” the spokesperson told the Herald. “The drain got cleaned out by early evening last night. We kept it closed today to make sure the areas that got wet were thoroughly cleaned and dry.”

Officials continued investigating the situation Friday, but it appeared that “the clog was due in part to wipes that people are flushing,” the spokesperson added.

BCYF, in a post on X, alerted members that the center was closing early Thursday night for staff to “take care of some issues in the women’s locker room,” and at that time, officials expected the center to be open normal hours Friday before they shut the facility down for the entire day.

Friday is not the first time that the Curley has had to close since its reopening last summer, with a water issue shutting doors for a substantial portion of the day last Nov. 6. That followed a closure that lasted a couple hours due to a maintenance issue last Sept. 12.

The center reopened last June for the first time in three years. It closed in March 2020, when the world shut down due to the pandemic, before construction started months later that October.

City officials touted how the renovations included “a focus on resiliency, including measures to combat the impacts of climate change and future ‘king tides,’ such as an open basement so water and sand can flow in and out, interior waterproofing, and removable metal plates to help hold back water on the ocean side.”

If flooding hits the building’s exterior, the water will go underneath the building and into drainage ditches, and there’s a way to shut the plumbing off to prevent rising, BCYF’s director of operations Eddie McGuire told the Herald last June.

“Essentially, we can make sure that in a major, 100-year storm, the facility won’t get washed out,” he said.

Some controversy followed the reopening due to the piping plover, a federally threatened small, stocky shorebird. Because of the piping plover’s nesting season, it took an extra month for officials to allow the public to cool off at L Street Beach.