From Allentown City: Allentown’s Cedar Beach Pool will remain closed for the next several days due to flooding on Saturday.
Flood water from Cedar Creek entered the pool. As a result, the pool will have to be drained, cleaned, re-filled and re-treated and the water quality will have to be re-tested.
The city will have a better projection of when Cedar Pool will re-open after clean-up work is completed. In the meantime, the city’s Jordan, Mack and Irving pools will be open daily Monday, August 6 through Thursday, August 9. The morning adult lap swim programmed scheduled for Cedar Pool will be held at Jordan Pool.
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Monday, August 06, 2018
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No need to wear a Speedo today Bernie O !
ReplyDeleteAnybody want to bet that they find damage to the pool and it will remain closed the rest of the year for more (expensive) repairs?
ReplyDeleteSo, the Irving Street Pool because of difficulties at Cedar Beach Pool must come out of the bull pen to pitch for a few extra innings and avoids being waivered for release for the time being …. Who would have thought about that just after schools closed for the season.
ReplyDeleteBefore construction started on the refurbishing of the Cedar Beach Pool the City was told that it should rebuild the pool on higher ground to avoid what just occurred this past weekend. But the former Administration seeking to hold costs down and that in actuality didn't happen chose the existing sight for re-construction … Pity they need that because now they need to construct an aesthetically bad wall or dam to hold the waters of Cedar Creek back from the pool in high water situations as this.
What name shall we give to the wall and who shall pay for it...
So today, despite what city authorities in the past administration aid about the antiquity of the Irving Street Pool, it stands tall as the journeyman ready to take the ball and get the job done.
This pool is the Pawlowski corruption graft gift that keeps on giving,
ReplyDeletefrom it’s rigged bid to the incompetent design, inadequate materials and implementation.
Individuals who abetted the bid rigging still hold management positions in City goverment.
#ReMoveTheRot
"No need to wear a Speedo today Bernie O !"
ReplyDeleteI'll wear it anyway.
Dennis P. 9:06 am said
ReplyDelete"Before construction started on the refurbishing of the Cedar Beach Pool the City was told that it should rebuild the pool on higher ground to avoid what just occurred this past weekend. But the former Administration seeking to hold costs down and that in actuality didn't happen chose the existing sight for re-construction."
But you forgot the best part:
And the rubber-stamping city council, let by the vision-less current Mayor, did nothing about it. Instead, they approved Pawlowski's plans to refurbish a pool in a flood plain with nary a peep.
City employees involved in the initial bid rigging, including Parks Manager Rick Holtzman, are still on the City payroll.
ReplyDeleteWhen does the new administration hold those involved in this disgraceful episode accountable?
That isn’t a rhetorical question.
Even if you plead guilty to a felony while City Manager, or fired one step ahead of an indictment as a department head (hired by the aforementioned City Manager), you are worth quoting in a Morning Call piece on a Pawlowski era boondoggle.
ReplyDeleteThe list of instutions and individuals involved in the culture of corruption is deep and wide.
The Queen City is circling the drain.
ReplyDeleteOne could say the damage of recent years will take a generation to repair.
More realistic observers will find that assessment overly optimistic.
Just another day in The City Without Limits.
ReplyDeleteThe point about rebuilding a pool in a flood zone says it all.
ReplyDeleteI'm dying to know if you will be contributing to Fed Ed's Go Fund Me for his legal expenses.
ReplyDelete