
Icebergs captain Matt Barry and Cottesloe Crabs president Neville Barker. The clubs are in close contact. Picture: Andrew Ritchie
See this article on page 3 of the Western Suburbs Weekly, 17/Sep/2013, by Jon Bassett;
Amazing project to try and create a floating filtered swimming pool in New York and an interesting concept to fund it.
Ocean pools are everywhere around Sydney and the East Coast and they are hugely popular. There are many suitable locations for ocean and beach pools along our metropolitan coast line.
Ocean pools are far more environmentally friendly than normal chlorinated pools. They cost much less to build and maintain and they do not drain our precious groundwater or consume conservation land or land that could be used to accommodate our growing population.
It is time for Perth to start building eco-friendly ocean pools.
Advantages;
Maintence and Running Costs;
Some pools use pump systems and others are self flushing. Bondi, Balmain and Bronte in NSW use old pump systems and do require some labor and maintenance. Even self flushing pools need to have sand or seaweed removed at times. However, engineering and technology has come a long way since many of these old pools were built and most issues can now be over come or minimised considerably.
It looks like even heating is a possiblitity using a wave power turbine out under the ocean, which could cost as much as $2M, but once installed there would be no power bills and it would provide all the electricity for the entire facility and surrounds.
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