"Before you take that dip in the pool...." Topic

…read this:

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I haven't darkened a pool, neither public nor private, nor a lake in many, many years because of this one issue. As a matter of fact, one area public lake and several public pools were closed for a time last summer because of the waterborne virus cryptosporidiosis ("crypto" for short). It was attributed to at least one person at each location that may have been ill and went swimming anyway.

I had my fun, but now I think of it more as "human soup". :-P

Just got done with a rounds of laps in my pool. Since I am the one that uses the pool 95% of the time, I am not really worried about other folks.
That being said, I am fairly unconcerned with this sort of fearmongering by the press. I would not want to swim in the East River or the Thames or most of the rivers in the third world, but will happily swim in a hotel pool or the ocean. My only problem from a public pool was at ta resort in florida when some yahoos had tossed drinking glasses off their balcony into the pool. Sliced up my foot and spent the rest of the vacation out of the water in stitches.
We did have a bout of cryptospiridium at a water park near here but I have never had a problem. In my mind this hits the same note as teh folks that tear up playgrounds due to infinitesimal level of arsenic leaching from the wood.

Says it all…

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Nah, not "human soup", "Man Tea".

Jlundberg, whether someone defficating in a public pool or a bunch of "yahoos" tossing drinking glasses into it, there's always someone displaying irresponsibility. It's flawed human nature, unfortunately.

Existence itself is risky.
Life isn't meant to be safe and sanitized…

I just maintain my pool with about 25% more chlorine than is recommended.

The only other option is closing the thing, and four kids won't tolerate that in August!

When I was a kid, the pool at the Boy's Club was so heavily chlorinated that your trunks always came out pastel. That pretty much solved any hygiene problems.
-Kle.