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Environment Monday, July 23, 2012 Hot weather a blessing and a curse for pools Cycle of droughts and storms wrecking havoc on water levels, chemicals and even scavenging animals by WKSU's KABIR BHATIA |
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 | | LuAnn Burnham has to watch the water levels, temperature, chemicals, filters, tanks, pumps... | | Courtesy of Kbatia |
In The Region: The impact of the drought on everything from Ohio’s corn crop to dairy herds is well-documented. But WKSU’s Kabir Bhatia reports that even a business you think would welcome this summer’s dry, hot weather is finding it a bit of a curse as well as a blessing. |
LuAnn Burnham has been a swimming instructor and a swim-team mom and now she runs three neighborhood swimming pools in Hudson. At any given moment, she's responsible for dozens of swimmers all over the city. And the whereabouts of about a quarter-million gallons of water.
The water's temperature is controlled in the back rooms of each pool, a maze of tanks and filters and pipes and pumps. Despite being indoors, this back room is not immune to the heat, either.
Burnham estimates that one pool loses about 100 gallons of chlorine a week. More evaporation requires more chlorine, and she says this year, she’s had to use 10 times more than usual during the day. To compensate, she's slowed the rate chlorine is pumped at night, when the pool is closed... to people.
"Raccoons are a big thing with pools because there's always garbage, there's always trash. So they like to come around; I see their paw prints on the side of the pool. I think they come around looking for the water because there isn't enough in streams. They're all low."
With the pool being a closed system, the only way to add water is from rain, or, when the weather gets this hot, with a garden hose. Burnham says that only adds about 2 inches every 8 hours, and the hose has been parked poolside for most of the last month.
Northeast Ohio is expected to get a bit of a break this week with thunderstorms moving in today. That’s not great news for the pool business, but these days, it beats the alternative. |
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