Swimmers dive into season with pool maintenance issues

As most high school swim team members began diving into pools and swimming laps back and forth, the DGS swimmers remained dry. Last spring, maintenance began at the DGS and DGN pools, with both of them being drained for health/life safety work; however, many other issues were uncovered during this scheduled maintenance. This has resulted in an unknown date for when the DGS pool will be refilled with water and open to swimmers again. When completing inspections of the pools, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) determined that the pool would not be able to be in operation until…