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During the peak of this year's swim season, the Centers for Disease Control released a seemingly frightening report that made the headlines of newspapers and TV broadcasts around the country.
Out of 22,131 public pool inspections in summer 2002, 54 percent resulted in state health code violations, the Atlanta agency discovered.
To the general public, that was a pretty scary statistic.
However; to the aquatics industry, and even the CDC, the information wasn't as alarming. That's partly because the report drew on a small sample of pools and didn't fully document the type of pool being examined (community pool, hotel/motel, apartment complex), or ...