Author: James Wernicke

County Pool Discussion Tomorrow Night

Greetings Members and Friends,

Everything is going pretty well at the pool. LAHS started swimming today and weather has been great this past week. Somebody said they felt like it was California. You should come swim while it lasts!

The County will be giving a presentation to Council tomorrow on the status of the aquatic center and alternative swimming locations. We would like them to send us guards so we can expand hours and provide recreational swimming. You should submit an eComment or email to Council before noon tomorrow with any questions you would like Council to discuss.

We’ll be staying open as long as the weather allows.

Don’t forget the member meeting October 14 6:00 PM at Mesa Library.

Thanks for supporting East Park Pool.

East Park Needs YOU To Support The Pool TONIGHT

We need people to show up TONIGHT 5:30 SHARP to tell the County Council they want to swim at East Park Pool and not be forced to drive off the hill during rush hour to swim.

Pool is currently 80.4⁰F, but it feels a lot warmer compared to the 53⁰F air. We will not be open this afternoon. Sorry, our volunteers are stuck at their day jobs. Tell Council to send us their lifeguards.

Pool 80⁰F, Vacuum Working, Pool Open Today 12-1p, 4:30-6p

We had a busy morning. Lap swimming will be available 12-1p & 4:30-6p today. Pool is 80.1⁰F. Pool vacuum is working so I’ll be vacuuming today.

The furnace tripped this morning and last night. We’re not sure why it’s tripping. It’s probably not good to just keep ignoring it, but we don’t have the time or expertise to figure it out. This is one of the reasons why we’re strongly considering shutting down on Sunday. Another reason is the board/volunteer maintenance team just wants their lives back. Wanna join the board? Fill out the member survey and show up to the meeting on Oct 14!

Maybe they can be persuaded to keep the season going. With both Walkup and Genoveva Chavez down for at least months, we really want to stay open for the local swimming community. There’s a County Council meeting this Tuesday. Maybe you can show up and make public comment at 5:30pm SHARP that emergency County support would really help.

Pool 80⁰F

Greetings swimmers,

Haven’t given an update since the pool was 74⁰F so just wanted to say we took care of that. Water is warm and clear. We’re losing the fight on debris because we just don’t have the volunteers to keep up with brushing. We’re working on getting the vacuum system working.

We’re open for lap swimming 9a-11a today and 10:30-12:30p tomorrow. 6-8a and 4:30-6p next week. The afternoon hours are a bit iffy, but we’re only open because of volunteers and we have a very thin bench. We’ll expand hours if we get some more volunteers on watch duty. Check the door sign for the latest hours. I’ll answer the phone if I’m there, but I also answer email usually within a couple hours when I’m not there. Sorry, this is the best we can do without more help.

We received a response from the County. It was a bulleted list of all the ways nothing is their fault. There was nothing about sending their guards to help us expand hours and be open for recreational swimming for the public. Instead, they’re sending their trained pool staff to do custodial work at the golf course and Española. Be sure to let your County Council know how you feel about that.

They have also announced the aquatic center won’t be open until January due to a pump replacement that wasn’t part of the scheduled resurfacing work. They slipped it in during a July 25 Council meeting. They knew in July that there would be long lead times and told Council they were confident it wouldn’t delay the project. Let your councilors know how you feel about that, too.

We will keep fighting the good fight, but we need swimmers so we can pay for the heating and chemicals. So please come swim. $10/adults, $5/youth, lap swim only.

Water temp 74.4⁰F and warming

Our boiler detected a fault at some point in the night and shut off. We put a third cover on the pool to bring the temperature up quickly for practice tonight.

We also added water because we’re losing more water to evaporation and the gutters were dry. This causes air to be sucked into the circulation system, reducing efficiency.

We hope temps will be back to 80⁰F by this afternoon, but if not, by morningl. Forecast is for better weather next week.

We are currently meeting our revenue targets to cover heating and chemicals, but just barely.

Thanks for supporting East Park Pool.