Category: Swimming Pools

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The Greensboro Aquatic Center in its final lap of construction. Ground broke on the fourth swimming pool almost a year ago and now complex directors are preparing for the grand opening on Sept. 24.

A Bucks County swim club is closed until further notice after a tree fell on a large tent, injuring nine people. Lower Southampton Township workers surveyed the damage at Dolphin Swim Club, a public swim club run by the township, one day after a quick-moving storm blew through. The pavilion-like tent was left mangled, crushed…

The nearly-completed, 30-story ARC Vancouver tower, developed by Concord Pacific, features a glass-bottom pool on the 20th floor — the bottom of the arching portion of the structure — that allows swimmers to look 200 ft down onto the public plaza below. See DailyHive and Concord Pacific  

North Natomas is getting its aquatics center. The Sacramento City Council on Tuesday voted to approve $14.4 million in funding for the long-awaited North Natomas Community Center and Aquatic Complex. Sacramento-based Otto Construction plans to break ground on the complex within the next 30 days, said Councilwoman Angelique Ashby, who represents North Natomas and has…

Louisville launched a study nine months ago to examine the potential of adding a new indoor aquatic center. Officials said the city had “maxed out capacity” with existing options and wanted to look into luring regional and national meets. But an entirely different conversation has played out in the months since — dominated by an ill-fated tax hike proposal to…

Everyone knows about urine-indicator dye, despite the fact that it has 100 percent never existed If you pee in the pool, it’ll go blue! There’s a special dye in there, designed to detect urine, and it’ll billow around you in a big, embarrassing, pissy cloud, and everyone will know you’ve done it, and you’ll be…