I coach at a YMCA pool (built in 1956 and is a 20 yard pool) where the air temperature ranges around 92-95 degrees and the water temp is usually around 88 degrees. Also, there is poor ventilation because the ventilation system is not working properly. Lately I have come home after coaching with terrible headaches. I worry about our age-group swimmers too because they are working out in such warm temps. The maintenance dept and Y will not lower the temp and have not taken our complaints as a priority. Is this a dangerous situation or do I need to just grin and bear it. Please advise if anyone can help or tell me who we can alert. Thanks!
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I'm sympathetic to your position, but in my experience warm water temps at the Y are usually justified to make the pool comfortable for the little tots, who are themselves most likely to be susceptible to increased levels of environmental irritants or bacteria in the water. Their safety should take precedence.
Skip
sorry, but 90 + is excessive.....our Y is pretty accomodating to our little guys and the elderly, but even they keep it more at 88 for our "rec" pool........the lapswim/team pool is closer to 85.....
and I have been told by some of the life guards that our water park (shallow,very warm water) actually needs the highest amount of chemicals to keep the water safe and the air quality in that place is horrid, I have seen people come out of there with watering eyes and difficulty breathing.....
I'm sympathetic to your position, but in my experience warm water temps at the Y are usually justified to make the pool comfortable for the little tots, who are themselves most likely to be susceptible to increased levels of environmental irritants or bacteria in the water. Their safety should take precedence.
Skip
sorry, but 90 + is excessive.....our Y is pretty accomodating to our little guys and the elderly, but even they keep it more at 88 for our "rec" pool........the lapswim/team pool is closer to 85.....
and I have been told by some of the life guards that our water park (shallow,very warm water) actually needs the highest amount of chemicals to keep the water safe and the air quality in that place is horrid, I have seen people come out of there with watering eyes and difficulty breathing.....
