About 250 people took lessons at the Kamsack Swimming Pool over the 67 days that it was open during the summer.
A total of 130 people took one of the four one-week sessions of lessons; 107 took one of the two two-week sessions, while 12, including two adults were involved in one of the two private sessions of lessons, Kev Sumner, Kamsack’s recreation director, said last week. Persons from Vancouver to Togo took lessons at the Kamsack Swimming Pool.
The pool holds 470,000 litres of water and with evaporation and the small leak that was experienced, Sumner estimates that over half a million litres of water was used in the pool during the summer.
At the pool 1,260 litres of chlorine was used to kill bacteria in the water; 400 litres of hydrochloric acid was used to lower the pH because pools are recommended to have a pH of between 7.2 and 7.8; 150 kilograms of sodium bicarbonate was used to raise the alkalinity in the pool; 100 kilograms of calcium chloride was used to raise the hardness of the water thereby reducing the wear and tear on the pool; 100 kilograms of cyanuric acid was used to stabilize the chemicals within the water and 120 air freshioners were used to “make the pool house smell wonderful,” he said.
Added to this was “lots and lots of bleach to clean the floors and bathrooms.”
In total, the pool was open for 644 hours over 67 days and it made use of the expertise of 20 lifeguards and two managers who were employed, he said. A total of 173 students of the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute and 15 of their teachers visited the pool in June the week before the end of the school year.
The pool averaged 25 children and 12 adults per day throughout the season and the KamKids Daycare students averaged six per visit.
“Of our 20 staff, all of them were qualified to administer first aid and all but two are qualified with the bronze cross, which is the minimum requirement for swimming pools in Saskatchewan,” Sumner said. “We had five water safety instructors and a further six assistant instructors who would help them with the swimming lessons.
“I would like to pass on thanks to all the KSP staff for a great season and thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed the pool this summer,” he said.
