Concern over pool cloudiness shuts Veterans Memorial Park
Duncan Riley, of Ann Arbor, holds his daughter Hazel, 3, as he covers his eyes while cooling off at Veterans Memorial Park Pool on Tuesday afternoon.
Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
Supervisor Dennis Simon said he noticed the cloudiness around 3:30 p.m. and it "came on pretty quickly."
Simon said nearly 300 people were in the pool when management decided to shut it down.
"When you have a cloudiness issue, it can turn into a safety issue," Simon said. "As a precaution, we shut it down. If a child or someone was under the water, you wouldn't be able to see them."
Simon said this sort of thing does happen from time to time and the best solution is to close the pool temporarily as a precaution.
"It's one of the things where you get so many people in the water and they have all of these oils and stuff on and they're not following the directions on the bottles," Simon said. "The filter just can't keep up with that."
Simon said as of right now, it only seems to be a problem with the filter and the pool should be open as usual Wednesday. People who were at the pool during the time of its closing were given a pass that they could use at Veterans Memorial on a later date or at any of the other area pools.
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Comments
Madeleine Borthwick
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 3:56 p.m.
oh, dear....bad time for this to happen! hopefully they'l be able to reopen soon.
eyesofjustice
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 6:16 a.m.
Yuk....
YpsiFrog
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 4:02 a.m.
If everyone would just take a good shower BEFORE entering the pool, we wouldnt have these problems at pools. Everyones always concerned about smelling like chlorine and shower when they leave. How clean do you expect the pool to be after a few hundred use it as a tub! (Long time pool worker in the area)
Joe Hood
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 8:33 a.m.
As the sign says at the Y: "with soap"
Mikey
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 2:09 a.m.
and...... THIS is why you don't use public pools. disgusting.
Madeleine Borthwick
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 3:55 p.m.
Mikey, I'm not at all sure that the lakes are any safer...
smokeblwr
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 12:40 a.m.
Hopefully nobody found a Baby Ruth after draining the pool.
Honest Abe
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 12:37 a.m.
I wonder if a bunch of kids went pee pee??
Madeleine Borthwick
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 : 3:54 p.m.
Abe, it could be....this reminds me of a sign at my friend's aboveground pool: to wit: "Welcome to our "ool". notice there is no "P" in it. please keep it that way." parents,please make sure your kids visit Mrs. Murphy before going swimming!
Julie Baker
Tue, Jun 19, 2012 : 9:41 p.m.
The photo caption mistakenly included information from another photo. It has been corrected.