Invercargill\u2019s Splash Palace has faced the unfortunate task of cleaning up two code browns on the same day.<\/p>\n
Last week, the learners pool closed for 1 hour 45 minutes due to a faecal contamination incident, reopened for swimming lessons, and closed again due to contamination.<\/p>\n
The double dose of doo-doo comes at a time when details have surfaced about an\u00a0uptick in code browns\u00a0at the pools.<\/p>\n
Council manager aquatic services Stephen Cook said the recent incident involved a \u201csmall amount of additional matter\u201d being found which prompted the pool\u2019s closure for a further half hour.<\/p>\n
“It is not clear whether this was from a separate incident or was overlooked due to its small size.”<\/p>\n
Staff acted quickly in both instances and followed standard procedures, he said.<\/p>\n
That involved closing the pool, cleaning the material and super-chlorinating the water.<\/p>\n
A pool could remain closed for anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours, with the amount of time dependent on the \u201ctype of material\u201d.<\/p>\n
Local Democracy Reporting spoke to a source who claimed the second piece of faecal matter was stepped on by a swimming instructor who then smeared it “slightly” across the bottom of the pool.<\/p>\n
Cook said there had been no reports of faecal matter being stepped in or transferred to the bottom of the pool.<\/p>\n
Recent information provided by the council showed the number of code brown incidents at Splash Palace had exceeded 2024 numbers with two months to spare.<\/p>\n
As of 31 October, there had been 30 incidents resulting in 58.5 hours of unplanned pool closures compared to 28 incidents and 59.4 hours lost in 2024.<\/p>\n
The leisure pool was the most common location for code browns.<\/p>\n
– LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Invercargill\u2019s Splash Palace has faced the unfortunate task of cleaning up two code browns on the same day.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-167247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}