[twister881]

It’s difficult to keep a pool’s Ph balanced and bacteria levels controlled. Can’t imagine the condition of a pool that size and that overcrowded. Would be easy for the health dept. to shut down. And that’s saying nothing about the restrooms or locker rooms, which usually are even worse. — former lifeguard

[blackdog]

I have my own plaster gunnite pool with swim-outs. Every year we hold a party on 4th of July, and on Labor Day. Attendees are all neighbors. Since I manage the pool chemistry, I do not use the pool then, and for about a week after, because I know how much the organic matter chews up the chlorine. It's gross.

I have a solar hot water shower with LP Gas backup, yet very few people use it before they jump into the pool.

To recover the chemistry after a big party it takes two shocks, an extra three pounds of chlorine, several backwashes over about five days before normal returns.

I won't use a public swimming pool.