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The City Municipal Swimming Pool is now closed for the season.
The Bisbee Municipal Swimming Pool is located at Higgins Park on the corner of Higgins Hill and Key Street in Old Bisbee.
It is a long-standing feature of Bisbee recreation. The City of Bisbee was awarded a grant for $47,500 from Arizona State Parks in 1967 to build the pool for the youth of Bisbee. Total project cost was $95,000 and was completed in 1969. It included a large pool with diving board, a baby pool, and a building for change rooms. Since then, a ramada with picnic tables were added, the original diving board was removed and replace with a slide, and the change rooms have been restructured.
The pool is staffed from Memorial Day through Labor Day by a pool manager and lifeguards who are all seasonal employees with Red Cross Certifications. It offers open swimming, swimming lessons, and lap swimming for kids of all ages. It also offers a youth swim team for competition with other cities throughout the county. Not only is it available for public use, it is also available for rental by private parties. Last season, the facility served an average of 75 with as many as 134 patrons per day. Swim lessons and swim team programs added an additional 48 children to the facility.
The summer 2008 season began with a newly installed water slide, additional solar panels for warmer water, a snack bar, and additional seating for its patrons. Since these amenities will add to the enjoyment of the facility, we anticipated a higher occupancy. Health Benefits of Swimming
Physical inactivity is a major public health problem. Inactive and unfit persons are more likely to develop chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and other ailments; lose function with age and thereby lose their independence; and die prematurely. Most of the evidence on physical activity and health is from experimental studies of aerobic exercise, typically running.
Individuals who report swimming for exercise have baseline risk factor profiles similar to runners, and better profiles than those who are sedentary. Preliminary analyses show that mortality rates in swimmers were less than one half those observed in sedentary men. Blair concludes that men who swim for exercise have better survival rates than their inactive peers. This information sited from the National Swimming Pool Foundation website and newsletter, www.nspf.com |