BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Buffalo’s swimming pools are in crisis. The city has lost half of its available pools in the last decade, leaving residents with few options to learn a skill that can save their lives.
Neglected facilities mean the indoor pool at Cazenovia Park in South Buffalo is now the only facility open year-round with accompanying learn-to-swim programming. That’s a stark reality for a city on the shores of two Great Lakes.
“Swimming is the only sport where if you know how to do it, it has the ability to save your life,” Mike Switalski said…