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Safety Concerns: Pools at BC’s Radium & Fairmont Hot Springs closed

The Radium Hot Springs Pools in Kootenay National Park and the public pools at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort are both closed following safety concerns are both facilities.

The rare occurrence is a result of two separate safety issues.

In Kootenay National Park, the Radium Hot Springs pools were closed Saturday after concerns about the subfloor’s stability in their wet hall.

Parks Canada said the pools will remain closed while staff attempt to mitigate the safety concerns.

Meanwhile, the public pools at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort were originally closed last Thursday (Jan. 9).

With the pools being supplied by natural mineral water, staff shut down the pools after concerns about their flow rates, noting that it could potentially be harmful to their guests.

BC’s Interior Health Authority is conducting a review, although the pool remains closed at this time.

(Story credit to Bradley Jones, MyEastKootenayNow.com)

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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