After more than a decade of fits and starts, a floating pool that’s shaped like a plus sign is headed for one of New York City’s waterways this summer — though it won’t be open to the public until 2025, assuming tests go well.
Once completed, the 9,000-square-foot pool, created by a crowdfunded company called +POOL, promises a chemical-free filtration system that takes in hundreds of thousands of gallons of river water and makes it more palatable to swimmers.
Wow, I'm shocked it's actually happening. Always seemed to be one of those pie in the sky, gadgetbahn esque things that never happens. We'll see though, the article mentions it still has to pass tests and then choose an official location.
NYC is one of the few places that I would shrug my shoulders at an outlandish idea like this and say, if anywhere it would happen there. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that.
After more than a decade of fits and starts, a floating pool that’s shaped like a plus sign is headed for one of New York City’s waterways this summer — though it won’t be open to the public until 2025, assuming tests go well.
Once completed, the 9,000-square-foot pool, created by a crowdfunded company called +POOL, promises a chemical-free filtration system that takes in hundreds of thousands of gallons of river water and makes it more palatable to swimmers.
I think the total cost is supposedly not far off from one might expect for a similarly sized traditional pool to cost.... maybe even less.....which makes be doubt the legitimacy of the proposal.
