I'm currently in the process of putting together a committee to start planning for a new aquatic facility in our area. I'm asking all of you to help me make a list of the things that should go into a facility if you had unlimited resources and space. I want to start my project with the biggest dream possible and then have it brought back to earth by money limitations, etc.
What I'm looking for are comments about our own facilities features that work well, that you would never do again, that you would change, that you would do differently, and what you wish you could have. I want to hear from experience.... What makes your facility work so well or why you pool is the arm pit of pools. Here is an example:
I've learned from one pool that they should have built a permanent wall between their lap pool and their zero depth entry rec. pool. The building is so noisy they can barely run a meet if people are in the recreation pool. Don't leave anything untouched (pool size, deck space, configuration, locker rooms, office space, outdoor facilities, observation seating, etc.)
Our initial plan is to build a 50 meter indoor, with adjacent recreation pool, and an outdoor splash area for the hot summers. We are one mile above sea level and our winters go from October to May. I'm hoping all you can help with the things you have all learned from the many years we have been swimming.
make it deep.
besides the kids pool, have a seperate, shallow, 'therapy pool' for the water aerobic classes that can be kept as warm as they want and out of way of master swimmers who think they own the pool.
This is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do!!! Have a seperate warm pool for lessons, "noodlers", hydrotherapy and hydroaerobics. This way you can keep the competition/training pool cool for swimmers. They can rent the pool to high school teams during the season for their practices and meets for a very good income. You can rent the warm pool to therapists/rehab specialists too.
Lainey bug, around here we have the opposite problem.....the hydroaerobic people own our pool and keep it WAY too hot. In the meantime, we have high schoolers practicing/competing in 85 degree water and passing out! :(
make it deep.
besides the kids pool, have a seperate, shallow, 'therapy pool' for the water aerobic classes that can be kept as warm as they want and out of way of master swimmers who think they own the pool.
This is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do!!! Have a seperate warm pool for lessons, "noodlers", hydrotherapy and hydroaerobics. This way you can keep the competition/training pool cool for swimmers. They can rent the pool to high school teams during the season for their practices and meets for a very good income. You can rent the warm pool to therapists/rehab specialists too.
Lainey bug, around here we have the opposite problem.....the hydroaerobic people own our pool and keep it WAY too hot. In the meantime, we have high schoolers practicing/competing in 85 degree water and passing out! :(