The Mount Maunganui Hot Pools are open today after being closed yesterday due to an electrical fault.
Tauranga City Council advised the public of the closure yesterday and said it was to allow for repairs on the fault to be undertaken.
The Mount Maunganui Hot Pools are back up and running after being closed on Friday.
Communications advisor Frank Beagley says the issue has been resolved and the pools are back in business this morning.
The pools previously shut down over anniversary weekend when an electrical fault shut down the bore pump.
At the time of that closure, Tauranga City Aquatics Limited CEO Tania Delahunty said the Anniversary weekend fault was an unexpected electrical fault.
The hot pools work by pumping hot salt water from an underground bore to heat exchangers which heat the seawater used in the pools. The pump is below ground at the bottom of the bore.
4 comments
Positive throughts ...
Posted on 16-02-2013 09:44 | By TERMITE
To replace the bore pump with new in less than a day can not have happened, it will be another patch up fix up at great cost and be nothing more than a temporary remdy. The bore was drilled and installed in the 1960's so lets say 50 years ago. Comments on the previous article are indeed relevant, about the part new and part old, yet all the millions spent the place keeps on failing to have improved the standards prior to the failed RMA consent in early 2010. The failures of the publically available facilities on a random and continued basis reflect only that the management within TCAL is failing to standup and get the job done. A board, management officers of any privately owned company would have been fired a decade ago for these kinds of results. It is a marketing and public relations nightmare that has yet to be fixed properly because those paid huge salaries are not accountable to the shareholders they are immune to responsibility for the actions/inactions that they are responsible for so the mess continues unabated.
I want to be a communications adviser
Posted on 16-02-2013 11:08 | By Phailed
Can I get paid by Council for writing this? The pools are open again. The problem has been fixed. When there is another problem the pools will be closed again. When that problem is fixed, the pools will open again. The time they will be closed will be the time it takes to fix them. It could be one day or two days or x number of days. If its fixed earlier than two days, it will be one day. There you are, a bit of communications advice at no charge to the ratepayer.
Disappointing
Posted on 16-02-2013 19:48 | By Crash test dummies
Was at the pad in the Mount on the long weekend hot the pools were closed? What is with that? Long weekend and shut? Just don't figure? Bit later like day or so didnopen but was free, thebCouncilnthere must be really rich to be able to do alnthis, just amazing!
Agree with Termite's words
Posted on 17-02-2013 13:45 | By carpedeum
"those paid huge salaries are not accountable to the shareholders"(read ratepayers for that )- that is the nub of the matter- its been a debacle from start to finish and continues ............no wonder the councils debt is so large !!!
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