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Wading Pools

Seattle Parks and Recreation will operate 14 wading pool sites in the summer of 2009, rather than the usual 25, because of the need to complete federally required safety improvements required by the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act.

Open

The following wading pools will be open the dates indicated. Once open they will operate seven days a week until Sept 7, weather permitting.

• Green Lake - June 20
• Volunteer Park - June 20
• Lincoln Park - June 20
• Van Asselt - June 20
• South Park - June 22
• East Queen Anne - June 22
• Cal Anderson - June 29
• Wallingford - July 1
• Dahl - July 6
• Delridge - July 13
• Hiawatha - July 20
• E.C. Hughes - July 27
• Bitter Lake - July 29
• View Ridge - Aug 3

Closed

These wading pools will not open in 2009 because Parks cannot do the drain work on all pools before the end of the summer:

• Beacon Hill
• Georgetown
• Gilman
• Highland Park
• Magnuson
• Northacres
• Peppi's Playground
• Powell Barnett
• Ravenna
• Sandel
• Soundview

We will plan to open the remaining wading pools on sunny days when the temperature is forecast to be 70 degrees or above. On most days we will fill them half full, which is a 50% water savings…..but on the busiest days they will be filled to the top!

SAVE WATER… USE THE WADING POOLS!

As an element of the City's water conservation effort, we're encouraging people to use public wading pools rather than fill their home "kiddy pools" or run backyard sprinklers.

In accordance with state law, we fill, supervise, and empty each wading pool every day, which requires a substantial amount of water. With a bit of analysis, we learned that filling home wading pools uses more water than a public community wading pool. For example, if 50 families used the East Queen Anne wading pool at 160 Howe St., rather than filling their home wading pools, the water saved would equal that needed to fill the public wading pool, which would serve a lot more than 50 kids!