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User Guide: Wading Pools

Setup: 24-Oct-2012 [7355]

• People go to wading pools to have fun and cool off. Staff can help with that through crafts tables, puzzles and the like. Recently the focus has shifted.

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Wading pools are places to have fun. So they have not only been places to cool off, but also places where kids could do crafts, puzzles, and reading. And of course just play and run around in the park or a nearby playground.

But in the past year "safety" protocols put in place by Toronto Aquatics has put a bit of a damper on this:

  • Attendants now have to wear what look like hazmat suits to chlorinate the pools (they're actually cheap, hot, and not very effective). These really just scare people
  • Attendants have been told to keep the pools at 5ppm chlorine, but their measuring tools measure a maximum of 5ppm so if they can't really tell if they're over, or even way over this 5ppm. The picture shows actual bleaching of a wading pool surface as the result of all this chlorine
  • For the first time wading pools have to be completely drained and refilled regularly during the day. This can take an hour or so each time, reducing the availability of the pool
  • Attendants are instructed strictly not to do anything but watch the pool (even when there are no kids in it), so they can't do things like prepare crafts tables.

Unfortunately all these things have made for a less welcoming atmosphere.

This topic gets into this issue in some more detail.

User Guide: Wading Pools

Setup: 24-Oct-2012 [7355]

• People go to wading pools to have fun and cool off. Staff can help with that through crafts tables, puzzles and the like. Recently the focus has shifted.

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·4· Management note to Aquatics worker

Description: A management note to an aquatics worker during the summer of 2012, confirming policy of "if there's nothing to do, do nothing" (but watch the empty pool).

Part of: User Guide: Wading Pools

Date: 22-Oct-2012 direct link (2012-10-20-AquaticNote_1.jpg) [7314]

·5· Ward 18 Wading Pools: Triumph of Technocracy over Reason (1)

Description: An initiative by a wading pool worker to set up a craft table for kids (while the pool was empty) is declared dangerous

Blog: Henrik Bechmann's Blog - Part of A Bird's Eye View: When Lively Parks meet the Rules User Guide: Wading Pools

Date: 18-Aug-2012 [5692]

Video: Wading Pools - Summer 2012

Description: To browse through PREZI slide show, scroll below Video

Part of: User Guide: Wading Pools Videos and Picture Shows on Parks as Commons Widgets

Date: 17-Feb-2013 [8575]

Wading pool safety

Description: The City of Toronto has a sole-source contract with the lifesaving society for training and materials. This topic also contains details on chlorine and more.

Part of: Safety and Liability User Guide: Wading Pools

Date: 24-Oct-2012 [7356]

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