Pool still closed,call the mayor or email

[glassnumbers]

ya'll are welcome to pop on down to Whittington we have a neat little swimming spot you're welcome to visit!

Aloha

[dan d]

Where is that?

Dan D
HPP

[dan d]

I just talked to Maurice director of parks and rec. They tried to cover the pool when it was raining peles hair but that didnt work. So the pools full of it. The replacement of sand ,filters etc will be $ 76,000. Its gone out for bid. He thinks it will take 2 weeks to fix after bids ok`d. Eta ?

Its not the lifeguards or recs fault any of this. Its who is in charge and what they do or donot do that has hurt one of our only sources of water recreation. Why were we not allowed to use the pool during the crises? maybe by lottery or whatever and just close the gate so the people that had to take showers could do so? Bad decisions were made and we have the consequences today.

Why couldnt they drain the pool back then? Cause when it was down a year to repair the didnt put a seal coat on it and the gunnite would crack now. Any pool guy knows a seal coat protects the gunnite surface. That would have costed way less to seal it then ,and
Would have made the pool last longer in the long run.

How many millions were spent back then? The main thing is no pool now.So those wanting to come to the east side of the island,dont expect to go in the water.
Not happy
Aloha

Dan D
HPP

[terracore]

There are a few public pools in Hilo. There is a public pool at the Hilo airport: http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/weblink/1...Page1.aspx (SCROLL DOWN TO PAGE 10)

NAS SWIMMING POOL - (808) 961-8697
Old Airport
110 Operations Road
Hilo, HI 96720
Camille Benitez, Senior Pool Lifeguard, Cassandra Beccia, Pool Lifeguard, Kenneth Hamada, Pool Custodian

[reni]

"Its not the lifeguards or recs fault any of this."

Can you folks even distinguish (manage to discern ) the difference between "FAULT" and "RESPONSIBILITY"
The care and maintenance of the Pahoa pool falls under the RESPONSIBILITY OF THE parks and wrecks (yes, wrecks) PERIOD. THIS ENABLING MINDSET needs to take a hike.

[dan d]

The nas pool at airport only lets classes ,no free swim, inhawaiian shores, no except
Home owners,hilo pool twice i went 3 peps to a 2 person lane, got kicked out of deep end after 10 laps so they could do diving board. Im not a uh allumni so no uh,

Pool in kau ,lol.

The peps at the pool want to let us in but pele hair liability,and someone got cut on it.
Im just puttin pressure where it need it so maybe it wont get lost in da shuffle.
Where is widdington?
Aloha

Dan D
HPP

[eigoya]

Further than Hilo. On the way to Punalu'u.

[MarkD]

Let's get the Pahoa pool operating. Pools are the future for swimming recreation in East Hawaii. They can build several more the size of the Pahoa pool. Maybe start with a pool in Keaau.

Anyone who thinks either the county or state will build ocean swimming lagoons/pools (maybe something akin to Ahalanui) is engaging in very wishful thinking.

[dan d]

Thanks eigoya, if everyone calls or emails or facebooks there reps, the pahoa pool will go to the front burner. Im not going to give up. Cindy Evans rep for kona was nice enough to reply so far. Thanks punawebers for your support.
Aloha

Dan D
HPP

[Carey]

Dan, not sure when they tried to cover, but 2 other community pools in the area were able to avoid major damage, both had a cover & do not run the pool system policy...
As one of the volunteer instructors at the Pahoa Pool, Monday May 7th, I went to the other community pools & was able to continue my class, throughout this, as the HOAs did support assisting their surrounding comm unity...
If the Park District was not as proactive, I am sorry.
I also checked in with the Sr. Lifeguard at the Pahoa Pool multiple times each week in May. I saw that the pele hair was raining in on the pool & they were running the systems. I did not ever see the cover deployed, nor did my discussions with the Sr lifeguard lead me to believe they had tried.... In the May 30th edition of the Trip-Herald the park district had announced they were planning to open the Pahoa Pool on June 1.... this was in the midst of one of the highest peles hair emissions into Pahoa from fissure 8. After assuring my class that must have been a misprint on May 30th, I went directly to the Pahoa Pool & the guard was vacuuming out massive amounts of debris while the pools system was running... I then contacted the Aquatic Director, feeling that this was in error & was assured that, though the Aquatics folks did not agree, they were under pressure from above to try to open the pool by June 1. I was asked to write a letter to document my concerns. & I did:
"Status of Pahoa Pool Re-Opening
Carey Yost<cy....>Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:22 PM
To: parks_recreation@hawaiicounty.gov, cohmayor@hawaiicounty.gov
Cc: aquatics@hawaiicounty.gov, civildefense <civildefense@hawaiicounty.gov>, corpcounsel@hawaiicounty.gov, "Dela Cruz, Jason R." <jason.delacruz@doh.hawaii.gov>, sue.leeloy@hawaiicounty.gov, "eileen.ohara" <eileen.ohara@hawaiicounty.gov>, "Ruggles, Jennifer" <jen.ruggles@hawaiicounty.gov>

ke Aloha Roxcie Waltjen,
I am a volunteer Adult Aquatics instructor
at the Pahoa Pool. I have worked to provide an alternate venue for the
Pahoa Pool Aquatics class, during the re-assignment of the Pahoa Pool
for disaster services with the Hawaiian Shores Community Assn, (HSCA).
My agreement with HSCA ends when Pahoa Pool re-opens, so I have been
in routine communication with Pahoa Pool management over the status of
the pool. In class today, one of the class participants announced that
they had been in contact with the county, and that the Pahoa Pool
would be re-opening this week. As this would void our agreement with
HSCA, I did go to the Pahoa Pool to check the status of the pool
availability.
As I entered the parking lot, there was evidence of
Pele`s hair, ash & cinders, along the parking lot, sidewalk, pool
deck, and debris within the pool. I was shocked to find out that, as
of Wednesday morning, May 29, 2018, Hawaii County Aquatics Department
informed the pool lifeguard of the county`s plans to re-open the Pahoa
Pool to the public for swimming by Friday, June 1, 2018, even as a
close-by fissure provides a significant source of ash, cinders and
Pele`s hair to the downtown Pahoa area, and the Pahoa Pool. This is
still an ongoing problem, as for the short duration my vehicle was
parked in the pool parking lot, it had a thin layer of ash and Pele`s
hair deposited on the hood surface.
As a Red Cross Water Safety
professional, I have studied, and agreed to follow the International
Life Saving Federation (ILS) Statement on Water Safety Education and
Drowning Prevention, which includes:
Water hazards should be
reduced wherever possible, particularly where swimming and water
safety education take place.
As a Red Cross Professional, I have agreed to consider Environmental
Issues, which include:
Environmental factors can create water hazards where they are not
expected.
As aquatic professionals, the Red Cross states that part of
our responsibility is to “make sure swimmers know about the water
environment and any potential hazards… The more informed people are,
the more aware they will be of hazards as well as safe practices.”
Has the public been advised that currently the Pahoa Pool has a
quantity of ash, Pele`s hair and cinder being filtered out on a daily
basis? It is our responsibility, as Water Safety Professionals, to
alert the public of all potential hazards and to make sure there is no
foreseeable potential for hazardous materials in the pool area. At
this time, it is highly foreseeable that there will be latent, and
possibly active, sources of hazardous, glass-like particulates being
deposited into the Pahoa Pool through this week.
How can we
anticipate and announce the opening of a pool, when a huge source of
environmental ash, Pele`s hair and cinders is actively dumping
quantities of glass-like hazards into the pool?
How can we anticipate
the opening of a pool, knowing there are latent sources of
environmental hazards that can continue to drift in quantities of
glass-like hazards into the pool?

As a Red Cross Professional, I cannot understand how any aquatic
professional can contemplate opening the pool without proof that the
sources of this environmental hazard has been cleared completely away.
I cannot understand how the county can anticipate that this hazard
will not exist on Friday, June 1, 2018, two days from my writing this
note.
Carey Yost"