CDC: Eighty Percent of Pools Fail Health, Safety Tests
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Routine tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of public pools in five states – including Texas – found that almost eight out of 10 had at least one safety violation and about 1 in 8 had to be closed. (Los Angeles Times)
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