Texas declares war on high-diving boards.
When the [Cottonwood] pool opens Memorial Day weekend, the high dive won’t be there. The reason: Section L of Chapter 265 of the Texas Administrative Code, which prescribes clearances for diving boards, depths of water, and slopes of pool bottoms as they rise from deep end to shallow. The new rules became effective in September 2004. To oversimplify, they call, respectively, for greater, deeper, and gentler. Many municipalities gave their noncomplying pools a reprieve last season. But this summer, no exceptions.
Cottonwood had a prickly clearance problem further complicated by a slope violation. So even though Kerry Little, assistant superintendent of aquatics for Richardson, says [since the 1964 opening] no one had ever suffered an injury while jumping from the high dive, it had to be torn down this past winter.
[via Virginia Postrel]
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