{"id":132552,"date":"2016-09-08T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132552\/metros-swimming-pools-open-their-gates\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:33:49","slug":"metros-swimming-pools-open-their-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/09\/08\/metros-swimming-pools-open-their-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro\u2019s swimming pools open their gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot summer days are almost upon us and the metro\u2019s community swimming pools are ready and set to cool you down during hot days.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 1, some of the metro\u2019s swimming pools opened their gates to patrons for the long awaited \u201csplish, splash\u201d season.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In preparation for the swimming season, some of the pools went through an extensive process of renovation and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>The preparations included the normal annual acid washing of all pools, painting of all concrete pools, repairs to all tiled pools and the replacing of broken tiles, repairs to pool expansion joints, repairs to all plumbing, repairs to all electrical faults, cleaning of pool areas and buildings, the appointment of seasonal lifeguards, and purchasing of water purification chemicals.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>There are three pool categories across the metro, with different facilities, such as Category A, which has an indoor, heated swimming pool and is an arena for hosting big swimming competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Category B pools are mainly outdoors, with grandstands and Category C pools are normal swimming pools with basic amenities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The metro has set the entrance times according to the pool categories, as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Category A: Delville Swimming Pool: 5.30am to 8.30pm (Tuesdays to Thursdays); 5.30am to 6pm on Fridays; 10am to 6pm on Saturdays and 2pm to 6pm on Sundays. The pool is closed on a Monday.<\/li>\n<li>Categories B and C: All other pools in Germiston fall into these categories. The pools are closed on Mondays. From Tuesdays to Saturdays they are open from 10am to 6pm and, on Sundays and public holidays, from 2pm to 6pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The entrance fees to community pools, according to their categories, are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Category A \u2013 R15 per person.<\/li>\n<li>Category B \u2013 R10 per person.<\/li>\n<li>Category C \u2013 R5 per person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following swimming pools are open in the Germiston area: Delville, Elsburg, Leondale, Palm Ridge, Primrose, Gerdview and Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n<p>The Katlehong and Klopper Park swimming pools are closed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132383\/elderly-get-fit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elderly get fit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132393\/germiston-wins-second-round\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston wins second round<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='7cbc46c64f8eceb98cc6aa54f1b75d94'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the onset of warmer weather the metro has opened its swimming pools to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":132712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1003,979,969,1295,2734,1002,1004,1119,1491,2427,12224],"class_list":["post-132552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-sport-2","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-sport-2","tag-spring","tag-summer","tag-swimming-pools"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","local sport","melissa hart","metro","municipality","sport","spring","summer","swimming pools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}