Swimmers Warmed By Cremated Bodies

Interesting to me to find that countries besides America are struggling to find ways to operate while staying within their budgets. You must admit, this is a unique answer.

Rushmoor Borough Council is trying to make the lido viable and more attractive to paying visitors as it tries to deal with a  cut in its government grant.

The leisure and youth panel has been told that heat from the crematoriumâ s furnaces could be piped through to warm the lido and the indoor Aldershot Swimming Pools Complex to save money.

Coun Eric Neal said “I’d like to think in the strange times, we consider every option. We should be prepared to try any option to keep it open.”

David Quirk, the councils director of environment and community, said the lidos popularity was seasonal and it was largely unused for eight months of the year.

Closing the lido is understood to have been one of the options presented to councillors to save money.

But opposition from councillors led them to decide against it and focus on looking at a new way of running it to keep it open.

Now the council is to organise a cross-party group to look into the options for “the way forward”.

via Swimmers could be kept warm by cremated bodies - Telegraph.