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Press release of September 19, 2011
Community swim classes cancelled
for fall semester
Pool renovations delayed by
manufacturer's failure to ship equipment
BURNT HILLS: Burnt Hills-Ballston
Lake parents who had hoped their children could take
the usual Saturday morning Learn to Swim classes
this fall will have to wait until winter. The
district has decided to cancel all fall semester
Community Swim classes due to repeated renovation
delays in the high school pool area.
Community Swim director Matthew
Turner will attend the previously announced
registration session on September 20 to explain the
delay and apologize to affected parents, but
regretfully the only pool activity open to the
public -- once the pool can open later in
mid-October -- will be lap swimming sessions on
weekday mornings from 6:30 - 7:30 AM.
The problem stems from the fact
that a new 8,000 pound pool dehumidification unit
was ordered on time last spring but repeatedly
delayed in being shipped from manufacturer Desert
Aire to Burnt Hills over the summer. Once the unit
finally arrived at the high school in mid-September,
even Hurricane Irene played a role in creating
further delays.
The huge industrial crane needed to
hoist the 15 by 6 by 8 foot unit onto the pool roof
had to be rescheduled when weight limits on local
roads and bridges were temporarily lowered until
highway authorities could check them for damage
caused by post-hurricane flooding of the Mohawk
River.
The Desert Aire unit was finally
placed on the pool roof on September 15. Linking the
unit to pool systems, filling the pool, and
stabilizing the pool chemistry is expected to take
until mid-October. Once this is done, high school
physical education swimming classes and lap swimming
sessions can resume as usual.
Long term energy savings
expected
Purchase and installation of the
dehumidification unit is one of many renovation
projects being funded by $12.5 million in bonds
approved by BH-BL voters in a December 2009
energy-conservation referendum.
The new unit is expected to
significantly reduce the cost of heating the pool
and improve air quality in the pool area. It will
remove moisture from the air and use recovered
energy to heat the pool water and air, while also
bringing in fresh outdoor air as required by code.
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