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SWISS COTTAGE POOL
Part of the high profile London council said the pool would
swimming pool costing £85m is “hopefully” reopen by the end of
still closed 10 weeks after the the week but could not give a day
PROBLEMS CONTINUE
latest in a string of problems and warned further safety tests
forced it to close once again. were needed.
The learner pool at the Swiss The council’s Director of Sport,
Cottage Leisure Centre was finally Nigel Robinson, said following a
closed indefinitely in October fifth breakdown, he called for
after the high-tech rope used to independent assessors to
lower and raise its moveable floor intervene.
snapped. The ropes – which cost £5,000
Despite assurances for the each – have already snapped four
hundreds of youngsters and times before and until now the
elderly swimmers who use it every pool has always been repaired by
week that the pool would finally Euro Pools. The Glasgow-based
be open it remains closed and firm won a contract to build the
further delays are expected. 2012 Olympic swimming pools.
It has been closed around 200 Although the latest breakdown
days since it opened three years was fixed within 10 days, council
ago, which effectively works out officials said it had remained
as once a week. closed while their own assessors
In its latest statement, the carry out investigations.
BOY PARTIALLY
colostomy bag for several months
DISEMBOWELLED
while his injuries heal. The EAST ANGLIA ‘THE LOW POINT’
consumer protection department
IN ACCIDENT
issued a warning about the danger FOR SWIMMING POOLS
of pool equipment, following an
A four-year-old Australian boy is inquiry into the incident. Parts of East Anglia have Peterborough there are 14, only
recovering after being partially Consumer Protection poorer access to swimming one more than in Kings Lynn
disembowelled when he sat on a Commissioner Anne Driscoll facilities than almost anywhere and West Norfolk and
swimming pool skimmer box. The warned owners of older-style in the UK. Huntingdonshire which both
high profile incident has alerted swimming pools, installed prior to The figures which show the have 13. Fenland is not quite
pool trade associations all over 1988, to check skimmer boxes poor facilities have been bottom, since East Cambs
the world as a concern. The boy cannot be accessed by children. released by Malcolm Moss, MP shares that spot with Forest
was in the pool at his home in “In older-style pools these for NE Cambridgeshire, and Heath, both on four, but there
Perth when the accident skimmer boxes look like a seat or follows a response he received are some areas such as
happened, the Western Australian potty that a child can easily sit in in Parliament. Colchester where they have as
Department of Consumer unless there is a physical barrier Mr Moss was told by Gerry many as 24. South
Protection division said. or the lid is permanently secured Sutcliffe, Parliamentary Under Cambridgeshire has 13, and
He sat on the skimmer box, a down,” Ms Driscoll said. Secretary of State for Culture, even smaller councils such as
filtering device on the edge of the “If children sit in a skimmer box Media and Sport, that Fenland Uttlesford can muster 10.
pool which removes leaves and it can cause horrific injuries and had just five swimming pools Mr Moss also asked about
dirt from the water, and the even death. for the entire district. playing fields in each area and
suction of the pool’s filter pump “It’s important that skimmer Mr Sutcliffe provided Mr Moss was told Fenland had 112
damaged a portion of his small boxes have a safety skirt or lid with a list detailing all district compared to 141 in East
and large intestine. He spent a installed which is a vertical barrier council and unitary authorities Cambridgeshire, 223 in
week receiving treatment at preventing children from sitting on in the East of England and in Huntingdonshire, 179 in West
Perth’s Princess Margaret Hospital the box and that the lid is securely some places there are as many Norfolk, and a staggering 262 in
and is now recovering at home, fixed and can only be removed with as 24 swimming pools. In South Cambridgeshire.
but will require the use of a tools and not by hand.”
PLUG KIT FOR SWIMMING POOLS AND SPAS
A new low cost kit of plugs has under the most arduous the manufacturer has a range of
been developed to expand into all temperature and atmospheric kits that are suitable for other
of the pipes and nozzle found in conditions for long periods of time. branches of pipework service
modern pools and spas. The plugs can be used for the and maintenance companies.
Known as “Pool and Spa Plug Test stopping of leaks and for testing For larger pools, the use of
Kits” the kits have been developed pipework systems for leaks, using these plugs could save dramatic
after years of use of individual the simple manometer kit provided. levels of costs by not having to
plugs in domestic ponds, fish In addition to the Manometer, empty hot water, reheat new
farms and wetland the kit comprises 2 each ½”, 2”, 3” water and add new chemicals,
drainage areas. and 4” plugs all fitted inside a by plugging drain holes while
The plugs are high quality ABS storage case, the work is carried out.
manufactured along with a series of hose
from Nylon 6, connects for attaching to the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
an engineering plugs if and when required.
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plastic resistant to These kits can be adapted to F HUNTINGDON FUSION
chlorinated water and sea include plugs of different sizes to ( 01554 836837
water and can be used cater for special requirements and : www.huntingdonfusion.com
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