Friends of Dormont Pool To Get Diving Board Calculations
The group, which wants to buy a diving board, will get calculations that it hopes will address council safety concerns.
A diving board for Dormont Pool isn’t dead in the water yet. Friends of Dormont Pool will get in touch with a pool company to perform calculations for two possible diving board locations to address council's safety concerns, Sarann Fisher, a member of the group, told council’s finance and legal committee meeting Tuesday night. The company, B&R Pools, has done work at the Keystone Oaks school gym. The offer by Friends of Dormont Pool earlier this year to buy and install a diving board at no cost to the borough was initially met with excitement. But questions arose over diving board length and flexibility as well as height above water, pool depth, pool shape and board location. Patrick Flaherty, an FDOP member, told the committee Tuesday …
Mary Beth Kovic
10:26 am on Saturday, February 19, 2011
Ms. Malka – I assume the federal guidelines you are referring to is the ANSI/NSPI-1 (2003) Standard for Public Swimming Pools, which can be read at: http://www.inyopools.com/owners_manual/SRSmith_Cat_standard.pdf It has yet to be determined if Dormont Pool will meet the minimum requirements stated therein. If it does, it will definitely be on the very minimum end of the recommendations. The rules… more ›