Fifty of Philly’s 63 public swimming pools are set to open over the next several weeks amid a national lifeguard shortage, parks and recreation commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell said Friday.
Thelma Nesbitt sets up one of the lifeguard umbrellas at the Shepard Recreation Center and pool last summer.Fifty of Philadelphia’s 63 public swimming pools are set to open over the next several weeks amid a national lifeguard shortage, parks and recreation commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell said Friday. That’s eight more pools than opened last summer, when hiring was also a struggle.
The first pools are set to open next week, with a total of twenty six operating by July 4, the commissioner said, and the rest up and running by mid-July.that we feel acutely here in Philadelphia,” Ott Lovell said, “and we have a massive number of pools here in Philadelphia,” adding that the city has more pools per capita than any other city.
Nine pools that weren’t open last year will be available this summer, she said, and pools or spraygrounds will be open in every zip code. Seventy percent of open pools are located in low-income communities, she added, and the department tried not to close a pool unless there was another in a mile or a half-mile radius., Baker playground pool in Overbrook, and Behlfield recreation center pool in East Germantown.
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