A park district crew and local contractor are credited with saving opening day for the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s Lions Club Pool on June 4.
Days before the first swimmers were to arrive, the park district staff filled the pool and balanced the chemicals. The following day, staff noticed the pool had lost as much as five inches of water on consecutive nights, Doug Boehm, superintendent of parks and planning, reported to the H-F park board at its June 21 meeting.
at Lions Club Pool on Wednesday, June 15. (Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle)
“We noticed on the east side of the pool that the gutters on Morgan Street were wet,” Boehm said in his report.
The hunt was on for the leak with just days to spare. Boehm said park district staff from other areas came together to work as a team to find the leak. The team of Zig Gucius, maintenance supervisor at the H-F Racquet & Fitness Club; Eric Scheutzow, parks shop foreman and mechanic; Andrew Presnak from the H-F Ice Arena; and Kenny Nye, parks worker, spent two days trying to determine where the leaking was coming from.
Boehm credited their efforts with “saving us thousands of dollars and helping us get the pool open on time.”
But the parks team couldn’t repair the leak, so they called out Aleck Plumbing of Homewood. The company brought out plumbing cameras and located the damaged pipe.
“Aleck saw-cut and excavated down three feet to expose the pipe and installed a coupling on the broken schedule 80 six-inch pipe,” Boehm explained. “They started at 5 a.m. on Friday, June 3, finished the repair and back filled at 9:30 p.m. A concrete truck arrived at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, applied concrete to the exposed area, and we were ready to open at noon on opening day as scheduled.”
Boehm gave “a huge thank you” to his crew, adding “it is nice to have a good working relationship with Aleck Plumbing who made the repair a priority in their schedule.”
The park board approved a payment of $19,850 to Aleck Plumbing for the emergency repair.
Park crew, local contractor efforts made sure Lions Club Pool opened
By Chronicle Staff
A park district crew and local contractor are credited with saving opening day for the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s Lions Club Pool on June 4.
Days before the first swimmers were to arrive, the park district staff filled the pool and balanced the chemicals. The following day, staff noticed the pool had lost as much as five inches of water on consecutive nights, Doug Boehm, superintendent of parks and planning, reported to the H-F park board at its June 21 meeting.
“We noticed on the east side of the pool that the gutters on Morgan Street were wet,” Boehm said in his report.
The hunt was on for the leak with just days to spare. Boehm said park district staff from other areas came together to work as a team to find the leak. The team of Zig Gucius, maintenance supervisor at the H-F Racquet & Fitness Club; Eric Scheutzow, parks shop foreman and mechanic; Andrew Presnak from the H-F Ice Arena; and Kenny Nye, parks worker, spent two days trying to determine where the leaking was coming from.
Boehm credited their efforts with “saving us thousands of dollars and helping us get the pool open on time.”
But the parks team couldn’t repair the leak, so they called out Aleck Plumbing of Homewood. The company brought out plumbing cameras and located the damaged pipe.
“Aleck saw-cut and excavated down three feet to expose the pipe and installed a coupling on the broken schedule 80 six-inch pipe,” Boehm explained. “They started at 5 a.m. on Friday, June 3, finished the repair and back filled at 9:30 p.m. A concrete truck arrived at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, applied concrete to the exposed area, and we were ready to open at noon on opening day as scheduled.”
Boehm gave “a huge thank you” to his crew, adding “it is nice to have a good working relationship with Aleck Plumbing who made the repair a priority in their schedule.”
The park board approved a payment of $19,850 to Aleck Plumbing for the emergency repair.