Old Swimming Pool Water Finds New Life

As the cannonballs wind down and the new year revs up, the City of Burbank, California, now gets creative with the leftover water that remains in its McCambridge Pool.The concrete swimming pool built back in the 1960s has traditionally been drained and left empty at the end of each season in order to avoid the need to continue operating the pumps and adding chemicals when the pool is not in use; this also provides opportunities for painting and other care and maintenance.That water previously entered the storm drain system and eventually flowed into the Los Angeles River and out into the Pacific Ocean,