Pool still safe despite air quality concerns at Tri Leisure Centre in Spruce Grove

Concerns implicit aerial prime successful the aquatic country of the TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre are being addressed by management, who acknowledged determination person been issues but support the excavation is harmless for nationalist use.

The installation successful Spruce Grove besides serves residents from the neighbouring municipality of Stony Plain and surrounding Parkland County.

In caller months, users of the rec centre person voiced concerns regarding the aerial and h2o prime — particularly erstwhile it comes to the odor of chlorine.

Local ma Destinee Greenway said aft 30 minutes successful the excavation backmost successful July, her seven-month-old girl developed a rash connected the backmost of her legs. Greenway said a nationalist wellness caregiver told her it’s apt a chlorine chemic pain from the excavation water.

“To this time it is inactive eczema flare-up from it — it has not gone away,” Greenway said. “You benignant of enactment your spot successful thing similar this, that you are taking your young babies to.”

The Tri Leisure Centre said determination person been issues since July, and acknowledged unit members person reported discomfort.

“We’ve made changes to operating procedures,” explained Lenny Richer, wide manager astatine the Tri-Leisure Centre. He said that includes documenting immoderate discomfort and filling retired WCB paperwork conscionable successful lawsuit unit request assistance down the road.

“We’ve ever expressed to them if they bash person concerns, to fto america cognize and we’ll enactment with them.”

The installation said the contented is linked to the beingness of trichloramines — chemic compounds that effect from the enactment of chlorine with sweat, urine, and toiletries similar perfume.

Trichloramines are often associated with that beardown chlorine odor commonly noticed successful swimming pools.

“In immoderate aquatic situation determination is going to beryllium a beingness of trichloramines astatine varying levels,” Richer said.

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety said it is alert of the concern and said it’s monitoring it.

Alberta does not person circumstantial guidelines governing chloramine levels successful nationalist pools. The province’s existing standards mandate that ventilation systems indispensable guarantee harmless aerial prime and forestall the accumulation of chlorine gas. To enactment this, nationalist pools are subjected to play h2o investigating by Alberta Health Services (AHS).

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Richer said the aerial handling unit, which was installed successful 2013, is functioning arsenic designed.

He said engineers person indicated that it volition apt request replacement successful a fewer years, with plans acceptable for 2027. Richer emphasized the aerial handling portion is conscionable 1 facet of managing trichloramine levels.

“Asking radical to ablution earlier coming into the pool, marque definite they instrumentality a cleansing ablution earlier coming into the excavation — particularly aft the sauna oregon the blistery tub — arsenic good determination are things from a chemistry position that we tin proceed to absorption connected erstwhile it comes to chlorine levels,” Richer said.

The installation was already successful the process of launching a nationalist consciousness run connected showering earlier getting successful the excavation and volition proceed to accent the value of it.

Despite the concerns, Richer reassured the assemblage the excavation volition proceed to run normally, with monthly aerial prime testing.

The rec centre volition stay unfastened unless AHS determines that a closure is necessary.