The Pool is ready for swimmers again -- just in time for the weekend heat
Fellow residents, After a four-day closure to correct a chemical imbalance, the Eagle Nest Pool has reopened and is back in business for the rest of the summer swim season! That's welcome news, too, given temperatures are expected to hit the 90s this weekend. We understand the closing may have been inconvenient for some, but balancing chlorine and stabilizer and other chemicals for a 200,000-gallon, 40-year-old facility such as ours can be a little tricky, especially when you have aging filtering systems and piping. And when the Marion County Health Department says it's time to close and stabilize the water, well, you don't have a choice. Sure, we could have spent a day dumping more chemicals into the water in hopes things would rebalance, but there was no guarantee that would have worked. And that would have meant an even longer closure, so we decided to drain the facility -- one of the largest, private neighborho...