Clearing the News Desk #5: About the Decorah Swimming Pool

(The Decorah Swimming Pool has been the topic of several recent decorahnews.com letters and news stories.  Here are a couple of updates):

--Justin e-mailed to ask the number of pool users per season over the last few years and the trend for usage.  Not surprisingly, weather has a big impact on pool attendance--especially the weather in June, right after school gets out.  So hot summers see higher attendance than cool and wet summers--no surprise there.

Overall, pool attendance has varied from 33,000 to 24,000 over the last five years.  We will post a news story in September or October when the Park-Rec Department releases totals for 2015.

--Following several Letters to the Editor about the cost of admission to the Decorah Swimming Pool ($4.50 for a daily admission), David asked what other area swimming pools charge for entry.  A survey of ten other swimming pools shows their average day charge is $4.30