Anonymous wrote:what about playgrounds??
All I have seen is select opening with guidelines- but have not seen any guidelines for playgrounds.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I do know: people should NOT be using Rock Creek as an alternative to pools! I'm shocked at the number of children I saw in the water today.

PSA: Rock Creek is not clean water. E. coli numbers are high right now. It gets a little better every year, but it is not safe water.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rock-creek-is-washingtons-dirtiest-waterway-new-testing-might-help-nurse-it-back-to-health/2019/08/09/f87527ba-b92e-11e9-a613-64e3c977f8f8_story.html

https://www.facebook.com/AnacostiaRiverkeeper/photos/pcb.2843889565738822/2843889432405502/?type=3&theater

I know this is true, and yet, I let my kids pick up rocks from the beds and throw them etc. They definitely don't swim. If they drank some, I'm sure it wouldn't go well, but is wading really dangerous? What would happen beyond stomach issues?

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Anonymous wrote:DPR pools can reopen for lap swimming and other structured activities in Phase 2. Other pools can reopen with restrictions. However, I haven't been able to find any other detailed information about what the restrictions are. My guess is that it's still being drafted. Initially, no pools were supposed to open at all until Phase 3, so this is an improvement. My guess is that this change was made last minute and so DC government is still trying to figure out exactly how pools can reopen and then will provide guidance.

Do you have a link to info on DPR pools? I couldn't find that when I was looking (and am missing my lap swims tremendously!)

Go to the DC COVID site and look at Bowser's last situational report. But literally all it says is DPR pools will open for lap swimming and other structured activities in Phase 2. It has no details and I haven't seen them anywhere. I'm sure it will take DPR a while to figure this out, so my guess is pools will start to open in a week or so.

5. After July 15, 2020, the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) may open outdoor swimming pools for structured swim activities, including swimming lessons and lap swimming, provided that: (i) persons may not linger on the decks other than: (a) during a mandatory rest period, or (b) when the person on the deck has care over someone who is in the pool or in a lesson; and (ii) at all times, persons on the decks must maintain six (6) feet of distance between persons not in their household, and DPR may establish such other rules as it deems necessary.

Anonymous wrote:One thing I do know: people should NOT be using Rock Creek as an alternative to pools! I'm shocked at the number of children I saw in the water today.

PSA: Rock Creek is not clean water. E. coli numbers are high right now. It gets a little better every year, but it is not safe water.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rock-creek-is-washingtons-dirtiest-waterway-new-testing-might-help-nurse-it-back-to-health/2019/08/09/f87527ba-b92e-11e9-a613-64e3c977f8f8_story.html

https://www.facebook.com/AnacostiaRiverkeeper/photos/pcb.2843889565738822/2843889432405502/?type=3&theater

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DPR pools can reopen for lap swimming and other structured activities in Phase 2. Other pools can reopen with restrictions. However, I haven't been able to find any other detailed information about what the restrictions are. My guess is that it's still being drafted. Initially, no pools were supposed to open at all until Phase 3, so this is an improvement. My guess is that this change was made last minute and so DC government is still trying to figure out exactly how pools can reopen and then will provide guidance.

Do you have a link to info on DPR pools? I couldn't find that when I was looking (and am missing my lap swims tremendously!)

Anonymous wrote:DPR pools can reopen for lap swimming and other structured activities in Phase 2. Other pools can reopen with restrictions. However, I haven't been able to find any other detailed information about what the restrictions are. My guess is that it's still being drafted. Initially, no pools were supposed to open at all until Phase 3, so this is an improvement. My guess is that this change was made last minute and so DC government is still trying to figure out exactly how pools can reopen and then will provide guidance.

Anonymous wrote:One thing I do know: people should NOT be using Rock Creek as an alternative to pools! I'm shocked at the number of children I saw in the water today.

PSA: Rock Creek is not clean water. E. coli numbers are high right now. It gets a little better every year, but it is not safe water.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rock-creek-is-washingtons-dirtiest-waterway-new-testing-might-help-nurse-it-back-to-health/2019/08/09/f87527ba-b92e-11e9-a613-64e3c977f8f8_story.html

https://www.facebook.com/AnacostiaRiverkeeper/photos/pcb.2843889565738822/2843889432405502/?type=3&theater