Has water quality improved at Lancaster County’s pools? [photos, video] | Health

Over the past five years, has water quality improved at Lancaster County’s state-regulated pool facilities? An analysis of state health department data would indicate yes, overall – but the situation at individual pools may be less clear.

Nearly a quarter of Lancaster County’s 189 state-regulated pool facilities – 44 – logged at least one bacterial failure in the summer 2023. Of those 44 facilities that reported potentially concerning bacterial levels, Conestoga Pines Pool in Lancaster logged five, the highest in the county, with Bird-in-Hand Family Inn, Leacock Township, and Willowood Swim Club, Elizabethtown, just behind at four each.

In 2018, Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp Resort near Quarryville topped the list, with nine bacterial failures. (In 2023, Jellystone reported three.)

While facilities have little to no control over things like the weather and how many people are swimming, some pools have reduced failures by making changes to the things they …