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Share Your Memories of the Now-Demolished Carmichael Park Pool
The Carmichael Recreation and Park District demolished the leaky, out-of-code pool this year.
A 60-year-old pool in Carmichael will soon be nothing more than a patch of grass.
The Carmichael Park Pool, which has been unused since 2004, was demolished earlier this year, according to the Arden-Carmichael News.
Carmichael Recreation and Park District Administrator Jack Harrison told that newspaper the pool was leaking and not up to codes or disability requirements.
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"Everything was wrong with it," Harrison told the Arden-Carmichael News. "It would have been cheaper to build an entire new building.”
Replacing the pool would cost between $2.5 million and $6 million, according to the district.
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In the decades it entertained and cooled local residents, more than 1 million people swam there and 100,000 kids took lessons in the pool, the district said.
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