As a parent, it can sometimes feel like there are endless things to worry about. Is my child getting proper nutrition? Are my kids being stimulated, but not overly stimulated? And, perhaps most importantly, are they safe? If you’ve put your little one in swimming lessons, you probably feel good about the fact that you’ve taken an important step to helping them become safer around water. But you may still wonder about how the pool water that they’ll be in (and possibly ingest). If you have any of these thoughts, keep reading. In this post, we’ll share with you some important information about how Little Otter Swim invests in high quality H2O so you can put these particular worries to rest.
Safety First
Since we know that little swimmers often open their mouths and unwittingly may end up swallowing some swimming pool water, we have always been diligent about maintaining high-quality water. And chlorine safety may be a concern for you, which is one reason why our school uses automated chlorinators. These constantly maintained pre-programmed, appropriate levels of chlorine in the water run around the clock, year-round, to ensure that our pool water is at the safe, required levels.
Filtration Fixation
In order to provide high quality H2O for our students, we take filtering our water very seriously. The State of North Carolina requires that we completely filter the pool water every six hours, but we filter our large pool every two hours and our small pools every hour. Fun fact, in our Huntersville location, we filter 1,150 gallons of water per minute in our large pool.
Each of our pools has its own sand filtration system as well. During this type of filtering, the water from the swimming pool is pulled down by gravity through the sand. The tiny sand particles catch any dirt and debris in the water, then send the water through to the next stage of cleaning, ultraviolet (UV) sanitation.
Nixing the Bad
Once the water has been filtered with sand, it’s moved into a UV sanitation system, which is similar to the systems that help clean public drinking water. The UV rays first and foremost kill bacteria, viruses, molds and their spores, drastically reducing risk of infection to swimmers. Secondly, the UV system also destroys chloramines (the compounds that are responsible for unpleasant odors in swimming pools). After the pool water has gone through the rigorous sanitation of the sand filtration and UV system, the high quality water is safe and clean for little swimmers.
We care greatly about the safety and health of our students, so we spend a lot of time, thought, and resources on keeping high quality H2O in our pools. We also have several staff members who are North Carolina Certified Pool Operators, so we can be sure our sanitation and safety measures are up to the latest standards.
You have enough things to worry about as a parent, and swimming pool water quality shouldn’t be one of them. When you come to Little Otter, you can feel good about the high quality H2O that your kids are swimming in. If you’d like to learn more about our safety, approaches and swimming programs, contact us anytime.
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