During the first 50 of warm-up I spotted poop this morning. I confirmed it on the 2nd 50 and got out to tell the coach. Eventually they closed the pool, cleaned it out and threw in some chlorine directly in to the pool. But then they reopened about 30 min later. I was a bit shocked that they opened it so soon. The pool is a 50 meter x 25 yard pool so pretty big and they only threw in one 5 gal bucket of chlorine before letting us all back in. Does that sound right? If I remember my life guarding days right, poop means several hours of shutting down.
I was disappointed to have the workout suspended but I certainly didn't want to risk us getting sick, either.
I served for a year on a member's aquatic cmte at a local pool and this is a very large and daunting problem for pools apparentely. No amount of signage, free elastic rubber diaper pant things, or any other idea proves very successful. All too often, the offending child's parents will whisk the kid out and high tail it home before fault can be assigned. When we were kids we never had this issue because kids under 4 were not allowed in the main pool. I also think the proliferation of the water park themed community pools makes parents go berserk and forget little Johnnie is a big dumper.
It has gotten so bad that one local pool has a "pool condition hotline" so that you can call ahead to see if the pool is closed due to weather or "accident." It's maddening. I'm glad I swim at an aquatic club and not a Y or kiddie pool.
I served for a year on a member's aquatic cmte at a local pool and this is a very large and daunting problem for pools apparentely. No amount of signage, free elastic rubber diaper pant things, or any other idea proves very successful. All too often, the offending child's parents will whisk the kid out and high tail it home before fault can be assigned. When we were kids we never had this issue because kids under 4 were not allowed in the main pool. I also think the proliferation of the water park themed community pools makes parents go berserk and forget little Johnnie is a big dumper.
It has gotten so bad that one local pool has a "pool condition hotline" so that you can call ahead to see if the pool is closed due to weather or "accident." It's maddening. I'm glad I swim at an aquatic club and not a Y or kiddie pool.
