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These hunters, point youngsters have never been in water any deeper than a bathtub. Isaiah nelson of the Park and Recreation Department is teaching them to hold their breath underwater. First of all, it will help them float, secondly, they'll swallow less of the sand that has been

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accumulating in this pool every since it opened. Ironically, the sand is part of the filtering system. Each day when the filter is flushed, the sand blows back into the pool because a small plastic valve normally holding it back is broken each day. Young nelson sweeps the

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25 yard deluxe pool with a large broom, then dives nine ft with a smaller broom and bucket together the sand and throw it away in the 2.5 weeks since the pool was dedicated by Mayor Alioto NElson and co worker Jesse for gonorrhea have collected a sizable

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pile of sand from the pool bottom. This Martin Luther King Memorial Swimming Pool was financed primarily through private grants including $25,000 from Warner Brothers and 5000 from comedian Woody Allen. The rest of the money remains somewhat of a mystery. The park and Recreation department is believed

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to be slightly peeved at the mayor for ramrodding the project through so quickly. They claim they have no control over the situation other than staffing the facility. The contractor who installed the filter says he thought the problem had been remedied. The mayor's office has all but

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been transplanted to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. So the filter crisis remains in limbo. Could you just take the sand out of the filtering system? We can't do it. It's up to the engineers to decide whether to shut down and wait for that part to

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come from L. A. Which they've been waiting for 2.5 weeks, three weeks, which I think is kind of absurd. I think of a contractor builds a pool and stuff they should have on hand, extra parts or something in case something is faulty. It's faulty simply because

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when they open the pool, they opened it too soon without testing the equipment out should have been run at least a week or so, uh with the pool full of water and the engineer is checking it out if that missing part from Los Angeles doesn't come

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fairly soon, all of the sand will run out and the filter will no longer work, which means algae, fungi and bacteria. In short, a very filthy pool that will have to be shut down. And if that happens, city officials could well be wishing they hadn't opened

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the pool until they were absolutely sure it was ready. Mike, lee eyewitness news hunters point.