The swimming pool is closed due to pollution in Chartres-de-Bretagne, in Ille-et-Vilaine. However, staff continued to raise awareness of the situation. They now fear for their health and air quality analyzes seem to prove them right.
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Since Wednesday January 22, the Conterie intercommunal swimming pool in Chartres-de-Bretagne no longer welcomes anyone. It is closed until further notice andhe employees are technically unemployed. They were the ones who alerted their management to possible air and water pollution. A situation which would be linked to a faulty ventilation system: “I think it is linked to the time when the swimming pool was cleaned with a karcher. This undoubtedly caused water infiltration into the ventilation ducts”according to Abdella Errazougui, maintenance technician at the Conterie swimming pool.
The sheaths are oxidized and holed. SAccording to them, corrosion is everywhere in the premises. Inaugurated in 2008, the swimming pool is now in a very poor condition. “Even in the basement, all the pumps, which cause the circulation of water and used for activities with children, geysers, massage jets, water cannons, all that has not worked for two or three years “reports Olivier Gendron, general secretary of the SNPMNS union of the Conterie swimming pool.
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The union thus evokes a potential exposure to chlorinated derivatives. Result: everyone fears for their health and that of users. Some lifeguards complain of headaches. Fanny even took respiratory tests at Rennes University Hospital: “My result is not good since I lost my respiratory capacity and I inherited treatment for life. I am worried because I love my work, but my health is a priority all the same. I am far away to have finished my career and when I started here, I took the same exam and I had nothing at all”testifies Fanny Vallendorff, lifeguard at the Conterie swimming pool.
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Philippe Bonnin, mayor of the town and president of the union managing the swimming pool, did not wish to answer our questions, in a press release, he told us that: “Following the samples taken yesterday, the water quality complies with the references”. The air analyzes will not arrive until the beginning of February. Until then, the Conterie swimming pool will remain completely closed.
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