No_5_February_1963 — Page 108

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off floating impurities from the sur face of the water, and the flow from this trough is directed to waste. A spill over the edge of the scum trough can be maintained by a regulated intake from the sea.

Entries to the pool are provided with foot baths to which a constant flow of purified water is directed.

The capacity of the pool is about 700,000 gallons, and the rate of recirculation is about 2 million gallons per day, thus the capacity of the purification plant is able to maintain an overall "turn over" period of about 8 hours. By the arrangement of double inlets mentioned previously, approximately half the water will enter the pool at the deep end and half in the middle, thus the water in the shallow half of the pool, which is usually more crowded, is renewed in three to four hours.

This posed the sub-committee quite a problem. Underwater lighting was given serious consideration but the idea was finally rejected because of high initial cost, probable high cost to maintain in good order and diffi- culty in achieving an uniform bright- ness especially in the centre of the very broad pool.

The more conventional form of overhead lighting was therefore adopted. The main lights consist of 6 clusters of lamps set 35 feet above

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the pool. Three of these are mount ed on steel poles whilst the remain. der can luckily be placed on the roof of the club house.

To achieve economy in operation. each cluster consists of six lamps which have been so wired up that all or only some of the lamps may be switched on. In this way lesser number of lamps may be used for ordinary nights, whilst for gala nights all the lamps can be switched on.

In the planning and construction of the whole project, it will thus be seen nothing was left to chance.

The result was a credit not merely to the Club and its members, but to the whole island of Penang which boasts one of the loveliest coasts in the East, and has now a modern pool to macth the beauty of its beaches. The plans which illustrate this article are by courtesy of Mr. Ho Chiap Chye, the engineer in charge of the project.

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