Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
A skimmer basket from the public pool filtering system shows the effects of the diesel fuel dye which was thrown into the pool June 19. The skimmer baskets and weirs from the system were all replaced after the incident.
Much of Monday night’s town council meeting dealt with the June 19 vandalism of Odessa’s public pool, which was originally scheduled to open Thursday, June 21. Sometime early the previous Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, someone threw a container of red dye into the pool that was later identified as the dye that is added to diesel fuel before it is sold. Because the additive can irritate the skin, the pool had to be drained and cleaned, delaying its opening from June 21 to June 26.
The Friends of the Pool, a non-profit group that raises money to help defray the cost of operating the aquatic fa...
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