The Municipal Outdoor Swimming Pools open Monday 8th

[Bee]

There are a few more announcements on the Town Hall Webpage. Just scrool down to the bottom. The Municipal outdoor swimming pools open on Monday 8th June next. I think the Lifeguards are due back on beaches from 15th June.

https://torrevieja.es/es

Bee

[Carl]

There are a few more announcements on the Town Hall Webpage. Just scrool down to the bottom. The Municipal outdoor swimming pools open on Monday 8th June next. I think the Lifeguards are due back on beaches from 15th June.

https://torrevieja.es/es

Bee

The early opening of the outdoor pool this year is as a result of the unexpected closure of the indoor pool middle of last month.

https://www.informacion.es/vega-baja/20 ... 75865.html

Google translate with some minor tweaking for pool terminology (ex. swimming 'streets' = swimming 'lanes'), minus video and images:

Torrevieja definitively closes the indoor pool season after the accident and reopens the outdoor ones on the 8th

The City Council points out that it will replace the entire air conditioning system, which will no longer be located over the water and points out that the collapse of the conduit on May 15 was caused by the deterioration of the fasteners.

The season of the indoor heated pool in Torrevieja has definitively ended. Something that was foreseeable after the fall of the air conditioning duct, a structure of about 40 metres, over the water of two lanes of the pool and that, fortunately, did not cause personal injuries despite the fact that many users were swimming at that time. That Accident It happened on May 15. The definitive closure and also the reopening of outdoor pools is brought forward, which will be on Monday 8, as explained by the councilor for the area Diana Box. The City Council has waited until the outdoor pools are ready to announce the closure of the season of the heated Olympic pool, which normally lasts until the end of June.

Research

In this sense, the City Council wanted to inform "the public" about the conclusions of the technical reports made after the incident recorded in the municipal heated pool, in which the ventilation duct located inside the facility was detached over two lanes of the indoor pool of the Palacio de los Deportes.

The Department of Sports pointed out that immediately after an administrative file was opened with the aim of determining the causes of the event and evaluating the general state of the fastening systems of the affected infrastructure. The municipal technician responsible requested the preparation of a detailed report to the company awarded the maintenance service of the municipal sports facilities, Serveo Servicios, which was later complemented by a specific analysis carried out by the specialized company Anver Trabajos Verticales, dedicated to inspection work at height, due to the complex location of the conduit, located over the pool water surface.

Inspection

The inspection work also included the review of the rest of the anchor points and support elements existing in the installation, without detecting at that time any signs of a generalized structural failure or situations of imminent risk that would lead to new landslides being expected. However, once the complete technical study was completed, the specialists conclude that the incident "had its origin in the progressive deterioration of the fasteners of the conduit". This degradation would have caused a gradual loss of the resistant capacity of the support system until the failure that caused the detachment finally occurred. Now the City Council has launched a file for the contracting of the project for the replacement and installation of a new heating duct for the heated municipal swimming pool. The planned action will not be limited to the mere replacement of the infrastructure, but will incorporate a substantial modification of the current design. The new route will eliminate the passage of pipes over the sheet of water, a measure that will increase the safety levels of the facility, reduce future risks and facilitate both maintenance work and periodic inspections.

The Councilor for Sports, Diana Box Alonso, pointed out that "from the first moment we have acted with absolute responsibility and transparency, commissioning the necessary technical reports to know exactly what happened and adopt the most appropriate measures to prevent a similar situation from happening again". Box stressed that "the safety of municipal sports facilities is an absolute priority for this government team, so we are already working on a definitive solution that will improve the conditions of the heated pool and offer greater guarantees to all its users". The City Council regretted the inconvenience that this situation may have caused to the users of the facility.

The municipal explanation does not pronounce, at the moment, on whether it will claim a penalty from the company responsible for maintenance Serveo Servicios for the landslide, since that same company had carried out a previous repair for a minor landslide that was enabled, in addition to not interrupting the ordinary activity of the pool with hundreds of weekly users and competitions, although the mayor did point to this possibility in response to a request for information from the PSOE. Nor does it do so about whether that same conduit was the one that was replaced in the rehabilitation of the Palacio de los Deportes only five years ago by the company Orthem.