Swimmers soak at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool on Monday night. Flows from the three sources of geothermal water for the pool have dropped by nearly half at times in the last few years. That problem, combined with an ongoing deficit of lifeguards, has forced the city to reduce hours at the pool and, during cold weather, to open just one of the three hot-water pools. Erin McIntyre â Ouray County Plaindealer
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Dual problems a drain on Hot Springs Pool
The source of much of the burgeoning angst surrounding the Ouray Hot Springs Pool can be traced back to Rick Noll’s 5-gallon bucket.
Noll takes the bucket on a trek up the mud- and snow-caked incline from Oak Street west into the Cañon Creek Gorge to check on the flow of geothermal water feeding into the pool. The longtime city resource director stops at a PVC pipe jutting out of the side of a hill a few hundred yards below Box Cañon Falls. Water spills out of the pipe, dropping into Cañon C...
