Belmont Pool Closed
"On Thursday, January 10th, the City of Long Beach closed the pool indefinitely after a structural analysis found that the pool was “seismically unsafe,” meaning that even a moderate earthquake would cause severe damage to the facility."
The City's press release on the other thread indicates that the plan would be to build new pools (one indoor, one outdoor) at the current site, so it would seem that the issue not the geology of the site but the state of the building itself. (Similarly, folks mention that one option would be to rebuild the current pool, which also indicates it's not a site issue.) It may be that after the '72 Sylmar quake and the '94 Northridge quake that certain building techniques that were viewed as okay in '68 aren't okay anymore, but I speculate. The main point is that the current location, which is pretty cool, apparently is viable for the future.
The City's press release on the other thread indicates that the plan would be to build new pools (one indoor, one outdoor) at the current site, so it would seem that the issue not the geology of the site but the state of the building itself. (Similarly, folks mention that one option would be to rebuild the current pool, which also indicates it's not a site issue.) It may be that after the '72 Sylmar quake and the '94 Northridge quake that certain building techniques that were viewed as okay in '68 aren't okay anymore, but I speculate. The main point is that the current location, which is pretty cool, apparently is viable for the future.
