The Freedom Park pool and splash pad in Midtown are temporarily closed after staff found broken glass in the water, a result of what officials are calling vandalism.
City Aquatics Administrator TJ Johnson says the city suspects someone threw a glass bottle over the gated fence, shattering it on the pool deck before shards dropped to the bottom of the pool.
“If we allow people to swim in it, knowing that there was glass in it and there’s floating shards of glass, they could ingest it or it could go in their eye or they could step on it,” Johnson said.
The closure affects both the pool and the splash pad at Freedom Park, which Johnson says are used by many families.
“This is a busy pool and the splash pad’s busy, I mean, it’s seeing 1,000 people a week,” Johnson said.
Once broken glass is found in a pool, Johnson tells me the process to reopen it is far more involved than simply picking up the glass…