{"id":46601,"date":"2024-06-14T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=46601"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:39:51","slug":"simpson-park-pool-closed-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/06\/14\/simpson-park-pool-closed-for-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMPSON PARK POOL CLOSED FOR REPAIRS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WHO:<\/strong>              City of Lakeland Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT<\/strong>:             Pool closure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHY:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Liner is separating from the pool wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEN:<\/strong>            Immediately until further notice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHERE:<\/strong>           Simpson Park pool<\/p>\n\n\n

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The City of Lakeland Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts Department has closed Simpson Park pool until further notice.\u00a0 The vinyl liner has separated from the pool wall and is now a safety hazard.\u00a0 The liner separation has caused a large bubble to form that has moved close to the water intake valves creating a void that a person could get caught in.\u00a0 Bob Donahay, Director of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts said, \u201cSafety is our top priority, and we don\u2019t want an issue where a pool guest gets their foot or hand caught in the separated liner.\u00a0 The bubble created by the separation has gotten larger as it has moved near the water intake valves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staff has contacted the groups that utilize Simpson Park pool for group swimming and notified them that the pool is closed for repairs.\u00a0 The staff has also reached out to parents who have children participating in swim lessons to coordinate options.\u00a0 Gandy Pool located at the Kelly Recreation Complex (404 Imperial Boulevard) is open and guests are encouraged to use that facility during the closure. Updates on Simpson Park Pool repairs\/timeline and Gandy Pool operational schedule can be found at\u00a0www.Lakelandgov.net\/Swimming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO:              City of Lakeland Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts WHAT:             Pool closure WHY:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Liner is separating from the pool wall WHEN:            Immediately until further notice WHERE:           Simpson Park pool The… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"7591","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7591],"tags":[8807],"class_list":["post-46601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-of-lakeland","tag-simpson-park-pool-closed-for-repairs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46603,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions\/46603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}