Dr. Ernest Blatchley

It'll be treated and then it'll be pumped back into the pool.

It's recirculated that way.

In this system, what they did was they designed intentionally a deep gutter so that there is quite a bit of depth to the, the water was maybe six or eight inches deep, something like that, but much deeper than you normally have in the gutter around a pool.

And then they put perforated pipes in the bottom of that gutter and they introduced compressed air to generate bubbles.

So those bubbles then would move through that six or eight inch deep water column.

And then they applied a

negative pressure or a vacuum to what's called the headspace.

That's basically the air above that water column and then draw that air off and then vent it to the outside.

And again, the idea there is it strips those chemicals, but does so in a manner that bypasses the place where people are breathing.

Yeah, it worked really well.

Yeah, it was quantifiably better.

So we had instrumentation set up at the Olympic venue in Paris and

And we were able to demonstrate that this system worked well.

I think that's an accurate statement.

I would say that when we first started this work, we identified 11 compounds that we found in every chlorinated pool that we looked at, one of which was trichloramine.

So what we're talking about here really is focusing on trichloramine really for a couple of reasons.

One, it is the chemical that has caused the greatest concern because people are familiar with it.

We all smell it, you know, that sort of thing.

And there are known human health effects.

And that's not conveniently true for most of the other volatile chemicals that are present in swimming pools.