The bubble covering Hampden’s Maine Sports Complex, which collapsed under the weight of the snowstorm two weeks ago when a side previously slashed by vandals gave out, will probably be repaired and re-inflated by the middle of next week.

Pete Madigan, the Maine Sports Complex’s CEO, said he is hopeful a repair crew from Yeadon Fabric Structures Ltd. in Guelph, Ontario will be at the site on Sunday morning and that it will take “two to three days to repair it and re-inflate it.”

He explained that the work would have been completed approximately 10 days ago but the spare material needed to repair the bubble was held up in customs at the Federal Express plant in Memphis. Tenn.

Yeadon had sent a work crew to repair and re-inflate the bubble but because the spare material was delayed, they had to return to Guelph after spending two and a half days in Hampden waiting for it.

“It was a great shame,” said Madigan. “They [Yeadon’s work crew] had come up from a job in Massachusetts and had rearranged the dome and got it primed and ready for immediate repair.”

He said the cost to repair the facility “is under the $10,000 deductible.

“The damaged side will be triple-welded so it will be three times as strong as it was,” said Madigan whose facility was vandalized seven weeks ago.

He added that he does intend to “take advantage of the situation by advancing the exterior work with the installation of an outside building and toilet facilities.”

The 33,000-square foot facility, which contains a Sprinturf artificial grass surface, has been around for nearly two years and Madigan said business is up 30 percent this year.

Soccer and field hockey are the mainstay sports but it has been used for several other sports including golf, baseball, softball and flag football.

Day care activities are also held at the facility.

Madigan said he intends to reschedule the activities which were wiped out by the bubble’s collapse.

Volunteers and workers from the Joseph M. Burke and Son canvass company in Newburgh will also be involved in helping the Yeadon crew repair and re-inflate the bubble, according to Madigan.