Public Pool Design & Engineering
- The investment in recreational facilities, such as swimming pools, by local governments requires a significant return in profits earned from users of the pool, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Increasing attendance means that activities, including fountains and children's activities, often are incorporated into municipal swimming pools.
- Local health departments commonly administer codes requiring safety hazards to be accounted for in swimming pool design. Common safety hazards for swimming pools include tripping, hair entanglement and limb entrapment.
- The engineering used to provide safe and clean water for a municipal swimming pool requires the placement of drains at certain distances from the edge of a pool. The turnover rate, or times per day water is passed through the pool filter and treatment system, is regulated at periods between 4 and 6 times per day.
