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Features
 Fall Registration is Now Open
Fall programs are available in Leisure OnLine and Leisure catalogs are available in recreation centers and libraries.
What the City of Plano is doing to ensure healthy swimming pool water
Each pool features automated chemical controllers that detect changes in sanitation levels and feed chlorine on demand to meet local and state health code requirements. Additionally, pool operators manually perform water tests every two hours throughout the day. Two facilities, Oak Point Center and Tom Muehlenbeck Center utilize UV (ultra-violet light) sanitation on the indoor pools, in addition to traditional chlorine sanitizers.
When conditions indicate a need to super-chlorinate, or hyper-chlorinate, the pool we will do so following the Centers for Disease Control recommendations. We are committed to maintaining healthy pools and encourage you to visit www.healthyswimming.org for additional information on Recreation Water Illness, including cryptosporidium.
You may also view a short video clip by the Health Department regarding cryptosporidium on the Plano Television Network.
Park Irrigation System Difficulties
We are currently experiencing some technical difficulties beyond our control with the irrigation systems in the parks. Landscape watering at parks, athletic sites, public buildings and on medians are being affected.
Residents are encouraged to assist by calling the Park Maintenance staff at 972-941-7263 to report any problems observed with public irrigation systems or plant material that is under stress. All attempts will be made to correct the problem as soon as possible.
For a document with complete details click here.
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Douglass Community Center will be closed August 18-24 for annual maintenance.
Oak Point Center's Indoor Pool will be closed September 2-8 for scheduled maintenance.
Oak Point Center will close at 2:00pm on Friday, September 19 and remain closed for the Plano Balloon Festival. The Center will re-open on Monday morning at its scheduled time.
New Practice Establishing Conservation Buffer Zones
Undertaking a new natural resource management technique the Parks and Recreation Department has started establishing Conservation Buffer Zones in various locations throughout town. These are strips of permanent vegetation designed to manage environmental concerns and are maintained under a unique set of principles
Adjacent to a forest edge or waters edge a buffer zone can:
protect soil from erosion
reduce the speed of water runoff
increase soil stabilization
trap sediments
enhance water filtration rates
trap/filter fertilizer, pesticides and
heavy metals
enhance fish and wildlife habitats
protect biodiversity
As the department continues identifying ideal areas for conservation buffer zones you will begin seeing signs like the one above. We hope you will appreciate and enjoy this addition to our community's park system.
Tower at Arbor Hills Nature Preserve
PAR D. Duck and friends
Accredited by the National Recreation and Park Association since 1994
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