Yesterday a spokesman for the park claimed a fault had been located and the fountain turned off.
He added: “It looks like a small fault somewhere in the pipe work that allowed a small amount of chlorine to enter the water in the fountain.
“The good news is we have isolated the fountain and everything else is working fine.
“All safety procedures were followed.”The one where it stops your fountain spraying pure chlorine into small children's eyes? That one..?
Chlorine is a gas, so I struggle to comprehend how it was "sprayed into their eyes" (even by mistake). Was this a drinking water fountain, or some kind of ornamental fountain? If the former then chlorine is already present in the mains water supply. If the latter then any chlorine being added to keep it clean should be injected into the water "behind the scenes". So unless there was a major malfunction and the gas was bubbling out of the water, this story doesn't add up as far as I'm concerned.
ReplyDeleteI know local papers struggle with science, but chlorine is a green gas!
ReplyDeletePerhaps they meant, "The water purification chemicals were too concentrated"?
The sad thing is that most people under 30 will not have been educated sufficiently to know the difference.
Not a bit of bleach, perhaps, because some scrote peed in it?
ReplyDelete@ Ed P - I still have distant memories of watching Chlorine (or it could have been Bromine) bubbling out of a beaker on the chemistry lab bench, down onto the floor and out into the corridor! You'd never get away with that in school these days...
ReplyDelete"Chlorine is a gas, so I struggle to comprehend how it was "sprayed into their eyes" (even by mistake). "
ReplyDeleteYes, a few spotted this, Journalism, eh..?
"Not a bit of bleach, perhaps, because some scrote peed in it?"
Eeeeewwww!
" You'd never get away with that in school these days..."
H&S nightmare!