Sunday, February 22, 2009

How to add comments

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Monday, February 16, 2009

email from Andy & Ros Doldissen


Subject: Blackheath Swimming Pool is closed?

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:44:59 +1100

To the Mayor

How disappointed my wife and I were on our trip returning from Orange to Sydney when we stopped in at Blackheath looking forward to a refreshing swim in the pool only to find it closed. This was 11.30am on Monday the 2nd of Feb 2009. Here we are in the middle of summer with a local pool closed during the middle of the day. We looked at each other dumbfounded, a beautiful summers day, a wonderful park and gardens, a great public facility - the Blackheath swimming pool - all locked up?????

Yes, I read your pool sign stating opening times, Mon-Fri 7.30am - 11am & 3.30pm - 6.30pm, while this may be suitable for some locals it certainly doesn't suit travellers to Blackheath who are more likely to arrive late morning and leave early afternoon.

All I can ask is Why?


PS I have fond memories, as a child, of our family driving up the mountains to swim in the pool at Blackheath and picnic in the park.




Andy & Ros Doldissen
Clements St
Russell Lea 2046
NSW

Thursday, February 12, 2009

WATER TEMPerature log

December 08
Fri 05/12/2008 air 10.4-25.3 water 24.5
Sat 06/12/2008 air 17.9-25.8 water 24.5

January 09
Thu 15/01/2009 air 21.2-32.5 water 24.5
Mon 19/01/2009 air 10.3-27.9 water 22.0
Tue 20/01/2009 air 17.6-30.8 water 25.0
Mon 26/01/2009 air 12.5-25.0 water 25.5
Tue 27/01/2009 air 16.0-24.0 water 25.5
Wed 28/01/2009 11AM air 25.2 water 26.0
Wed 29/01/2009 3PM air 29.6 water 28.0
Sat 31/01/2009 3PM air 31.8 water 26.0

February 09
Mon 02/02/2009 7.30AM air 15.0 water 21.0
Mon 02/02/2009 3PM air 28.5 water 28.0
Wed 04/02/2009 3PM air 23.2 water 26.0
Fri 06/02/2009 6PM air 30.3 water 26.0+
Sat 07/02/2009 6PM air 32.7 water 26.0+ "bath temp"
Sun 08/02/2009 11AM air 29.3 water 26.0+
Thu 12/02/2009 4PM air 11.0 water 21.0
Sat 21/02/2009 11AM air 19.6 water 21.7
Sun 22/02/2009 3PM air 19.4 water 22.0
Mon 23/2/2009 7.15AM air 15 WATER 22.0

Sat 28/2/09 10.15AM air 20 WATER 23.1

March 09
Sun 1/3/2009 11.15AM air 18.3 WATER 23.0

Wed 4/3/2009 3.30PM air 15.2 WATER 23.5

WELCOME

Welcome to the website of Friends of Blackheath Pool & Memorial Park.

FoBP&MP meets regularly to discuss any & all matters concerning the Pool, and we feedback our ideas & deliberations to elected Councillors & BMCC Aquatic Centre management. Some FoBP&MP core members were intimately involved the Save the Pool campaign (2003/4), and on the advisory group to Council during Pool reconstruction (2004-6).

FoBP&MP views Blackheath Pool as a vital community asset, a keystone of Blackheath community life – historically, now and into the future. It’s a place where our community meets in summer – it’s our town-square!

In 1921 citizens of Blackheath raised £1,000 to finance work on establishing the Memorial Park. The Pool was converted from a railway dam by volunteers in the 1920s & 30s: “During working bees on Wednesday afternoons and weekends the dams are cleaned out, graded to the necessary depths & the bottoms gravelled. Old railway sleepers are painted white and placed to define the embankments.” The grand opening was held during the Christmas holiday in 1931 [for more detail see Historical TIMELINE ].

In 2003 the Pool was closed by Council when structural integrity failed & chlorinated water began leaking into Popes Glen Creek. On Australia Day 2004 concerned citizens organised the Blackheath Pool Party (without a Pool), to protest the closure – 500 people gathered in the Park for a community photo. The next day Council voted unanimously to reconstruct the Olympic Pool, install a new water treatment system and shade cover over the toddlers pool [for photo & more detail see Four Years Ago].

The refurbished Pool complex opened on 25th February 2006.
So the 2008/09 season is the third full season of the new Pool.

Please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions about Blackheath Pool on this website.

Thank you for your interest, Friends of Blackheath Pool & Memorial Park.

FoBP&MP information

Friends of Blackheath Pool & Memorial Park meets second Tuesday of the month at Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre (BANC), or leave comments on this blog.

One moment....

We pay respect to those who have lost so much in the Victorian bushfires. People like us, who live in close-knit mountain communities, within a bushland we all love & respect. We send heartfelt condolences to our fellow citizens in their hours of challenge.

Friday, February 6, 2009

NEXT YEAR - suggestions for 2009/10 season

Now we've enjoyed a full, warm, well attended season - what would we like to see next year?

SHADE? Food outlet? Changed hours?

Monday, February 2, 2009

more SHADE

...a perennial concern.

Extra shade-sails have been in use occasionally. They are anchored between the Toddlers Pool blue-pyramid sail AND perimetre fence. BMCC proposed they would be in place EVERY day to afford extra shade. FoBP&MP notes this has NOT occured.

They were in place over the last weekend, but on Saturday afternoon had ?collapsed? against the fence.