+Pool Would Let New Yorkers Go River Swimming

cylonlover writes "Three young entrepreneurs have proposed a way of getting New Yorkers into the Hudson, East and/or Bronx Rivers. It's called the +Pool (Plus Pool) — a public swimming pool that would float in the river, allowing people to swim in filtered river water. River water would flow into the pool through permeable walls, which would be composed of three layers filtering out the river nasties."

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Nothing wrong with Chlorine

[Anonymous Coward]

Your insinuation that Chlorine is a carcinogin is not supported by science or even anecdotal experience.

The main problem with swimming pools & chlorine causing irritation is ironically caused by *not enough* chlorine, since the the chlorine combines with septic materials to form chloramines. which are highly irritating to people. Look it up on Wikipedia, its basically forms of ammonia.

In fact, most swimming pools would benefit from significantly higher levels of chlorine. It would be safer and cleaner.

Chlorine gets a bad rap from people who generally don't know what they're talking about, or have something expensive to sell you.

And yes, I have decades of pool experience.