Swimming Pool News

• Preston could yet get Olympic-sized swimming pool (Lancashire Evening Post) March 8, 2010
  A team of consultants is being paid to develop plans for an Olympic-sized swimming pool in Central Lancashire.
• Swimming pool plans progressing (BBC News) March 7, 2010
  A planning application is being submitted for a new £11m swimming pool and fitness centre in Wakefield city centre.
• Plans are due for city swimming pool (Wakefield Today) March 7, 2010
  PLANS are progressing on the creation of a new multi-million pound city centre swimming pool.
• Huber Heights To Close Swimming Pool (WHIO-TV 7 Dayton) March 9, 2010
  The city manager of Huber Heights announced on Monday night that the city will permanently close the municipal pool that is located on Fishburg Road at Monita Park.
• Cumru zoners delay swimming pool decision (Reading Eagle) March 9, 2010
  Members of the Cumru Township Zoning Board have agreed that a resident seeking to install an above-ground pool must have a full property-line survey done before they can decide on his variance requests.
• Toxic fumes drama at school (Hartlepool Mail) March 10, 2010
  A SCHOOL swimming pool technician was taken to hospital after inhaling toxic fumes.
• Chemical concerns see town pool shut (Shropshire Star) March 10, 2010
  Council chiefs were forced to close a Shropshire swimming pool after concerns about chemical levels in the water.
• Construction worker injured in fall at Curtis High School (Staten Island Advance) March 9, 2010
  Doug Auer/Staten Island AdvanceA construction worker was hospitalized after falling into an empty swimming pool at Curtis High School, where he was doing renovations.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. ---  A construction worker doing renovations on the Curtis High school swimming pool fell...
• Greg Hansen: UA's water main man (Arizona Daily Star) March 9, 2010
  Racing to the airport in the back seat of a taxi, his hair still damp from the swimming pool, Jean Basson would get text messages from his Arizona teammates. Something like: WE GOING 2 B CHAMPS!
• KC public schools on brink of bankruptcy (Jefferson City News Tribune) March 10, 2010
  KANSAS CITY (AP) - Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.