OUR OTHER CEMENT POND

Today is July 21, 2009. There was no chlorine detected in the outdoor pool's test reading and the water is currently a cloudy pond scum green.
I was told the Berry Pool boys were out yesterday to correct this. That’s fine and dandy, but is not our Village paying Berry Pools thousands of dollars to monitor this pool’s water chemistry every two hours so things of this nature are not suppose to happen?

It’s understandable that equipment may break down now and then, but it was sold to us that this system is supposed to sense the effects of these failures and relay those problems immediately to Berry Pools. The water chemistry in a 1000 gallon hot tub can possibly change in a day, but a pool that originally held nearly 100,000 gallons of balanced H2O takes a considerable amount of time to change. We’re talking maybe a week of chlorine not being added, with sun, heat, and high traffic to change this from clear to a cloudy green. Our Village is paying through the nose for this system that doesn’t seem to be effective.

One should always give the benefit of a doubt, but no one should just sit back and ignore this silly spending of thousands of LIV dollars for something that takes just one qualified person usually less than an hour a day to do. There have been way too many times our hot tubs and pools have had water quality issues. For the tens of thousands of dollars spent so far, we should have had at least consistent water quality instead of the constant lame excuses.

This year Berry Pools resold everyone in our Park on a system that would alert them immediately if there was something wrong with the water chemistry so that the situation can be corrected before it becomes a problem. This whole deal seems to be a croc and should be rendered totally unacceptable. In my opinion a monkey could do a better job.

More important than the tremendous cost and never ending inconvenience, is the potential liability this erratic service poses to our Village. This Park does need another lawsuit from this “accident waiting to happen” scenario. The Board may want to take a hard look at this along with some action because there was no excuse for this last outdoor pool problem.