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Plant City Adopts Regulations For Swimming Pools

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By GEORGE WILKENS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 16, 2009

PLANT CITY Commissioners recently adopted a nuisance abatement ordinance tightening regulations regarding swimming pools.

The amendment allows the city to remedy any stagnant pool and assess the property owner for the cleanup.

The ordinance applies to "stagnant or insufficiently treated water, in a pool, pond or container of any kind, which has water in which algae is allowed to grow or in which mosquitoes or other insects are able to breed is prohibited and declared to be a public nuisance."

City Manager David Sollenberger has said the amendment was spawned by last year's problem with a backyard swimming pool at a vacant home owned by Fran Neilsen. Neighbors complained that the water was stagnant and smelly and Neilsen eventually cleaned it up.

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