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Ritenour officials say pool at Ritenour High requires major drain repairs; cost estimate pending
Summary
District staff told the board the deep-water main drain at Ritenour High School failed decades ago and the county health department has denied a variance for continued operation; the district must install a code-required drain or consider removing the pool. A contractor has engineered a scope but a budgetary cost estimate is still pending.
Ritenour School District staff told the Board of Education that the deep-water main drain at Ritenour High School’s pool must be replaced after county inspectors declined to renew a long-standing variance. The district says a replacement will require extensive demolition and pipe work; an engineering study is complete but a dollar-cost estimate is not yet available.
Facilities director Mr. Smith reported the problem dates to about 15 years ago, when the original deep-water return drain failed and the district covered the floor with a concrete skim coat to allow continued use. St. Louis County Health Department granted the district an annual variance for many years, but when the district…
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