Inspectors cleared murky pool, overlooked body

Ignore the body in the deep end of the public pool, there for two days. [Link]

“It’s a safety hazard. If that pool is so murky you couldn’t see the bottom, you couldn’t see that there was a corpse there, then there’s something really wrong with the clarity of that pool,” said Frank Singleton, director of Lowell’s Health Department. “It should have been closed and had the clarity restored.”
Added Jim Casieri, the Brockton building commissioner whose department runs the DCR-owned Manning pool: “If we can’t see the drain cover at the bottom, we will not open the pool. If we can’t see it during the course of the day, we will close the pool. . . .Water clarity is extremely important so lifeguards can see what’s going on. Water clarity is No. 1.”
Police said Joseph of Fall River was last seen Sunday when she went down the pool’s water slide and collided with a 9-year-old neighborhood boy she was chaperoning.
The boy told detectives he did not see her again. Her body was found submerged in the pool’s 12-foot deep end.