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Green Pool!!

nana59 — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:05:10 GMT

Was anyone else grossed out by the green pool the women divers were using today?! Eeeewwwwww. Someone reported that hydrogen peroxide was mistakenly put into the pool--which encouraged algae growth.....in this day and age, you would have thought they would move the competition to another pool.......okay, I'm done ranting......

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StylishLady — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:10:06 GMT

You'd think that the folks that take care of that would have-----taken care of it. For years, DH took care of our pool. One time some green algae got into it and he couldn't get it cleared up. We hired a pool service company and they got our water crystal clear. Costs us $75 a month, but money well spent.

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AKgirl2 — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:16:10 GMT

It's the Olympics, fix the problem, hydrogen peroxide or whatever. It's gross and I'm sure in some way affects the divers, and water polo teams. I know it would bother me to swim in what looks like a wierd color green jello.

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nana59 — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:16:38 GMT

@StylishLady wrote:
You'd think that the folks that take care of that would have-----taken care of it. For years, DH took care of our pool. One time some green algae got into it and he couldn't get it cleared up. We hired a pool service company and they got our water crystal clear. Costs us $75 a month, but money well spent.

I wonder who they hired to take care of these pools.....maybe it was their first day on the job!!!

@StylishLady wrote:
You'd think that the folks that take care of that would have-----taken care of it. For years, DH took care of our pool. One time some green algae got into it and he couldn't get it cleared up. We hired a pool service company and they got our water crystal clear. Costs us $75 a month, but money well spent.

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AKgirl2 — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:22:28 GMT

@StylishLady wrote:
You'd think that the folks that take care of that would have-----taken care of it. For years, DH took care of our pool. One time some green algae got into it and he couldn't get it cleared up. We hired a pool service company and they got our water crystal clear. Costs us $75 a month, but money well spent.

It happened to our pool a few times as well. We would shock it, scrub away the algae, take care of the diatomaceous earth in filter

(ex's job), pool robot would clean up all the algae that fell to bottom. Pools are lots of work with the constant upkeep not to mention the expense of it all. Gotta admit, the family and friends enjoyed it immensely, especially when the kids were younger. Those were the days...

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Moonchilde — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:24:53 GMT

I really can't conceive that during the OLYMPIC GAMES, for heaven's sake, with the eyes of the world already very aware of all the crime and incompetence occurring in Rio, that it should be that difficult to get and keep clean pools!

What is so different in the diving pools than the swimming pools? Treat them (chemically) the same. I can't believe this issue has been going in for DAYS. Eww, yechh, grosssss!

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shoekitty — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:33:39 GMT

I thought you said green POO...am I relieved it is the pool. Although a green pool🙀 is not good,

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shoekitty — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:35:34 GMT

No spoiler in my post below. I hit the emotes and the spoiler came up, I am on an ipad, is that common? I can use my own emotes, but not the forum ones. Hmmmmm

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Moonchilde — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:40:26 GMT

@shoekitty wrote:
No spoiler in my post below. I hit the emotes and the spoiler came up, I am on an ipad, is that common? I can use my own emotes, but not the forum ones. Hmmmmm

@shoekitty I'm on an iPad as well. I do very little formatting in my posts because the icons are so close together and touch sensitivity is annoying - I can press away and nothing happens. And it's very easy for me to have the wrong thing pop up when I'm trying to hit something else. So no, it's not just you 😟

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SeaMaiden — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:15:42 GMT

Between the gross Algae laden pools and the Zika virus, these Olympics have been an embarrassment.

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hoosieroriginal — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:27:22 GMT

Was watching the women's high dive today - makes me soooo nervous when they bounce on the board right before they dive - eeks! I was on the edge of my seat watching them -

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Kachina624 — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 02:01:13 GMT

It's the putrid water in the bay where the boating and some swimming events are being held that grosses me out. They discharge sewage and medical waste right into the water. Last week I heard ingesting as little as 3 teaspoons could result in serious disease or infection. Rio was supposed to have built 8 treatment plants to process this nasty water. Instead they built one.

They should never have held this event in such a filthy place. The athletes should have boycotted some of the events.

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Annabellethecat66 — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 02:17:58 GMT

We had a guy living next door to us who owned his own pool cleaning company. He'd always say, "Don't get a pool, they're a lot of work and expensive". I never cared about one because we traveled to Europe and the beach every summer.

I guess maybe he was right. Thinking back I guess no one would be around to use it anyway, so maybe it was a good idea not to get one.

I've heard unless you live like in Florida they can be considered a hazard and some people won't buy a house with a pool.

I do know when we all visit my daughter who has an amazing pool in Florida. Her children are in it every day. When we go down in the Fall and early Spring (it's heated) my grandchildren visiting ask my daughter to please have the pool heated and ready and they get in the thing. Of course when they get out their lips are blue. Ha!

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MommaNJ629 — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 03:14:07 GMT

Rio has so many issues at these Olympics. It's unreal. I would never go in their water like rowers etc. it's like rowing thru sewage and a teaspoon ingested can cause illness. Even the real sand in beach volleyball is gross. Sand is effected by tidal waters. The air quality there is dangerous too. But the green pools that they can't master is strange. Pools get algae. Yes. But not well taken care of ones and not when it's not extremely hot. Don't forget it's "winter" there so it's not 90. It's 60! Algae thrives when it's sweltering! Plus they can be cleared quickly with shock so this is especially gross. I don't know how diving is even fair since part of the dive is in the water.

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colliegirls — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 09:46:15 GMT

There is no excuse for those pools to have that much algae. Disgusting.

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AngelPuppy1 — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 11:45:27 GMT

There was no excuse for the condition of that water --- none. This is a huge event. They have had tons of time to prepare for it. Total incompetence. No way would I put even one toe in that water. And I agree totally with all of everone's comments here concerning the horrible conditions at Rio. They should never have had the Olympics there. The health risks --- just terrible.

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Moonchilde — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:37:32 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
It's the putrid water in the bay where the boating and some swimming events are being held that grosses me out. They discharge sewage and medical waste right into the water. Last week I heard ingesting as little as 3 teaspoons could result in serious disease or infection. Rio was supposed to have built 8 treatment plants to process this nasty water. Instead they built one.

They should never have held this event in such a filthy place. The athletes should have boycotted some of the events.

Some athletes in various countries elected not to go. I wonder if in the future they'll regret it. A couple of men (one a golfer?) didn't go because of Zika. Clearly there was something they did not want to abstain from for a long period of time 😜

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raven-blackbird — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:31:54 GMT

Anyone who has a pool knows you can get green water in a day..........generally it happens when your chlorine levels get too low, it's been a hot sunny day and the water has been still...........that's all algae needs to bloom.............the one thing people who own pools do is keep chlorine tablets in floaters in the pool to keep the chlorine level up, but I imagine with events going it's real hard to have floaters in the pools............but by shocking the pool at night and running the filter all night, they could have avoided the algae bloom...............................raven

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Jacie — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:17:07 GMT

Surprised that everyone is acting surprised about this. Some Pre-Olympic videos showed all the gross carp in the rivers, even a mattress floated by! The sailors are wearing masks and the Tri-athletes are reportedly having eye and/or skin issues.

I guess that's what happens when you award the Olympic contract to a country in such disarray!

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jaxs mom — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:40:30 GMT

So, all this hand wringing and finger pointing and it turns out that someone put peroxide in the pool by mistake, which neutralized the chlorine.

Honestly i didn't think the pool looked that bad, but I've swam in pools with algae before and it's never been an issue. A pool can go from clear to green in a matter of hours. And as far as shocking, considering the back to back events and the practice time plus the time required for people to stay out of the water after using shock I'm not surprised they didn't just shock it.