Cooling off in Copley Square
By adamg - 6/23/12 - 3:26 pm
Photographynatalia captured a girl in the Copley Square fountain at the height of the heat yesterday. One guy brought a chair.
Copyright Photographynatalia. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Comments
Guy in the chair
That guy is my new hero. He schlepped that chair all the way to Copley Square to sit in a fountain in his underwear.
This is the real Boston - not that mini-mall they want to build at the BPL.
Is that water safe enough to
Is that water safe enough to swim in?
I doubt it
If it's not routinely chlorinated, it's not safe for swimming!
A small fountain is easily contaminated because it's full of rain/runoff water, and miscellaneous trash/waste from the street. It has few gallons to dilute the bacteria, and it's recirculated so the bacteria won't wash away.
I wouldn't let a dog swim in that fountain.
Judging from the amount of
Judging from the amount of blown-in trash I usually see building up in it during the day, I would say no. This is what we have the Frog Pond for.
Frog Pond isn't open yet
I found this out the hard way yesterday. Why does it open so late in the year?