{"id":4071,"date":"2008-12-19T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2008-12-19T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:25:02","slug":"the-risk-pool-carlsbad-not-in-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"The Risk Pool: Carlsbad Not In Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/news-pool-t350.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/news-pool-t350.jpg','popup','width=350,height=233,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/news-pool-t350-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"News-Pool T350\" \/><\/a>Tonight at midnight a new federal law goes into effect regarding pool drain covers, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2008\/dec\/19\/1n19pools233950-some-pools-county-close-until-new-\/?zIndex=24865\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The new law will:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . require pools and spas used by the public to have new anti-entrapment drain covers. The covers are designed to protect swimmers, especially young children, from being trapped underwater by the suction created by the filtration system. . . .Congress enacted the law requiring the pool drain covers last year after 7-year-old Virginia Graeme Baker drowned when she became trapped in a spa drain in 2002. Her grandfather, former Secretary of State James Baker, pushed for its passage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drains have reportedly resulted in nine deaths in seven years, with 63 injuries. Currently, the Carlsbad Pool is no in compliance and, &#8220;Carlsbad officials have not yet decided whether to close the city&#8217;s single pool until the retrofit is done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All we can say is: close it until it is fixed and fix it immediately. Having been sucked onto a couple drains in our lives we can say that these drains are far, far more dangerous that the statistics suggest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2008\/dec\/19\/1n19pools233950-some-pools-county-close-until-new-\/?zIndex=24865\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at midnight a new federal law goes into effect regarding pool drain covers, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The new law will: . . . require pools and spas used by the public to have new anti-entrapment drain covers. The covers are designed to protect swimmers, especially young children, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}