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Show Pool Repairs Expected By First Of Year Repairs are expected to be completed on the building and the Panguitch Community Swimming Pool located at Panguitch High School is expected to be operational sometime shortly after Jan. 1. The pool has been closed since the collapse in August of the ceiling in the building which houses it. Reed Munson, contractor and spokesman for Munson Construction, Con-struction, said that damage to the ceiling was extensive, encompassing en-compassing over one-third of the sheet rock and one-half of the acoustic tile. Apparently the weight of solar heating pipe caused the collapse, bringing down the pipe, air conditioning and heating duct work as well as the ceiling material. Munson's company also contracted con-tracted to remove the debris from the collapse. Progress on the repair work is well ahead of schedule, said Munson, who employs four or five people for the work. While cleaning up the debris from the collapse, the company utilized a rolling stage to pull down the loose material from overhead. Because of the pool's incline, they had to brace, tie down, and raise one end of the stage to create a level working surface on top of the stage. Munson said that he and his work- men have devised a platform extending ex-tending 42 feet across the width of the pool that will also traverse, on wheels, the 75-foot length of the pool. The unit is eight feet wide and has been bolstered with longitudinally bolted 2x8 beams. It is further strengthened with plywood sheet bracing. The bridge will roll back and forth the length of the pool with the wheels using as a track the overflow gutter of the pool that is located just inside and below the curved decking at the edge. Rolling 42 feet from side to side on the bridge will be a three-tier rolling stage or scaffold. It has a metal platform that will hold two men and all the material needed for several moves. The unit will be fed material from a scissors-jack that is motorized and which will transport the material being used from outside the building in through the doors; It will then raise the load up to the level of the workers. Munson stated that although the bridge cost the company almost $1,200 to construct, it will more than pay for itself by saving man-hours it would have taken to restage on the pool incline. He also said he had been concerned for the safety of his crew working at heights that could have been potentially dangerous. |