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SARATOGA
POOL AT RISK!!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Our
letters have met with some success.
Please click
here for an update from our attorney.
Proposed
Administrative Rule R392-303. If allowed to go into effect, it will
require the closing of the SSOA pool and hot tubs!
Unless
the Legislative Review Rules Committee changes R392-303, Public Geothermal Pools
and Bathing Places, on October 22, 2008 our pool and hot tubs may have to be
emptied – for good!!
The
new proposed Administrative Rule lowers the allowable arsenic level below what
comes from our hot mineral water that is used to fill our pool and hot tubs.
You
may take a look at the rule at http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bull_pdf/2008/b20080915.pdf.
It begins on page 20.
Comments concerning this administrative rule must be
received by the Dept of Health by 5:00 P.M. on 10/15/08.
Send your
comments to:
HEALTH
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LABORATORY SERVICES
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
CANNON HEALTH BLDG
288 N 1460 1460 W
SALT
LAKE CITY
,
UTAH
84116-3231
Email rmarsden@utah.gov
Phone 801-538-6191
Fax 801-538-6564
Contact
your legislator
Senate: Mark
Madson
Home Phone: 801-368-8299 Cell Phone: 801-368-8299
House: Ken
Sumison Cell
(801) 361-4787
...and
contact legislative members of the Legislative Review Rules Committee and
express your concern. Go to http://www.rules.utah.gov/arrc.htm
for contact information.
A
FEW TALKING POINTS:
1)
The
SSOA pool has been in operation for 100 years.
There has been no instance of arsenic poisoning or other related illnesses such
as cancer related to contact to SSOA’s pool and hot tubs spring fresh
mineral waters!
2)
Arsenic
levels should apply to the water application.
Drinking water that is ingested should have a
lower allowable amount of Arsenic per liter of water than water
used for swimming pools and hot tubs One allowable amount of Arsenic level
per liter (0.010 per milligram) does not fit all!
3)
Turnover
of water rate in pools and hot tubs should be taken into account.
The water in the SSOA pool and its hot tubs turns over more than three (3) times
each day because of the constant influx of fresh spring mineral water.
Other pools and hot tubs that are filled with water containing less than the
allowable amount of Arsenic may have a turnover rate greater than once every
year. In these pools and hot tubs new water is added only as water
evaporates. As the water evaporates, the concentration of Arsenic
increases to a level that may exceed the allowable amount of Arsenic.
Click here for our
attorney's letter on the matter (old, please click here
for an update).
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