The City of Cape Town is temporarily changing the hours of operation of the Sea Point swimming pool in order to ensure the pool’s water quality over the intensely busy festive season.
All public swimming pools will be open between 10:00 and 17:00 daily, except for the Blue Downs, Long Street, Strand and Sea Point swimming pools, which will be open from 07:00 to 19:00 daily. However, the Sea Point swimming pool is very busy between December and January each year, which significantly reduces its water quality. In order to ensure that the minimum water quality standards are maintained, the operating times of the pool have been temporarily changed on certain days only during the peak season to allow for adequate turnaround time of water through the filtration system.
The changes are as follows:
The Sea Point swimming pool will operate between 07:00-19:00 on all other days.
Under normal circumstances, the filtration system used at Sea Point swimming pool requires 24 hours for circulation of the water to ensure optimum water quality. The pool’s extended operational hours, combined with the high volume of users during the summer months, does not allow sufficient turnaround time for circulation of water.
This change in operating hours will allow maintenance staff an additional four hours per day to address the situation, in addition to the overtime which they will work.
In order to ensure maximum usage of the City’s public pools during the festive season, the operating hours of Mnandi day resort and swimming pool will be extended as from Saturday 15 December 2012 when the pool will be operational from 07:00 – 18:00.
Regular checks will be conducted on the public amenities of City beaches and swimming pools to ensure that all bathrooms and showers are clean and in working order, facilities are kept neat and maintained, and tidal pools at beaches are properly managed.
Residents and visitors are requested to adhere to the following safety tips at swimming pools:
- Children under the age of seven must be accompanied and supervised by an adult or parent
- Only regular swimming costumes are permitted for swimming
- No alcohol, weapons, animals, glass containers, inflatable mattresses and tubes are permitted on the premises
- No ball or frisbee games, underwater diving equipment, playing of music or preparation of food is allowed;
- No running, pushing, ducking, petting, bombing, shouting or rough play is allowed
- Children over the age of seven are not allowed in the baby pool
- Any illnesses that you may be suffering from must be reported to staff before using the swimming pool
- The superintendent’s instructions are to be obeyed at all times
- Failure to adhere to these rules will result in you being asked to leave the premises.
Any emergency and/or distress call regarding a drowning incident can be reported to the City’s 107 emergency number. Dial 107 from a landline or 021 480 7700 from a cellphone.
Remember that lifeguards are there to assist swimmers and help those who get into difficulty in the water. Please adhere to their instructions.
