A floating swimming pool with a unique filtration system is coming to Manhattan’s waterfront, near the Lower East Side.
Per a report by The City, testing for +POOL is conducted to see how the pool will work with a scaled-down water filtration system mounted to a floating barge churning away in the East River.
The filtration system starts with a submersible pump that gathers 83 L (22 gal) of raw water a minute and discharges it into a 1,892-L (500-gal) feed tank with a strainer to block out larger items.
The water then passes through a feed pump and membrane filtration, which reduces turbidity or increases clarity. It also weeds out particulate organics, bacteria, and everything else found in the river. Finally, it is disinfected with UV light.
The three-month trial will collect data to help +POOL proceed to the next phase of designing the water-filtering floating pool, which includes determining the final size.
A prototype of the +POOL structure could be ready by the summer of 2025.
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