The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will provide heated swimming facilities in 26 swimming pools under its management throughout the territory for public use during winter (i.e. November 2019 to March 2020) to enable more people to continue to exercise. The department calls on swimmers to keep public swimming pools clean and hygienic and mind their safety while swimming.
 
     The list of swimming pools providing heated swimming facilities during winter can be found in the attachment. Of them, individual swimming pools will be temporarily closed during certain periods in winter for maintenance works. Details are as follows:
 

Swimming pool	Period of temporary closure
Sham Shui Po Park Swimming Pool	November 1 to December 21, 2019
Wan Chai Swimming Pool	December 1, 2019, to January 20, 2020
Kowloon Park Swimming Pool	January 1 to 17, 2020
Kwun Tong Swimming Pool	January 2 to February 21, 2020
Tuen Mun Swimming Pool	January 17 to March 31, 2020
Victoria Park Swimming Pool	February 15 to April 15, 2020

 
     In addition, Kowloon Tsai Swimming Pool without heated swimming facilities will be opened from 6.30am to noon daily from November 1 to 30.
 
     For details of the opening arrangements and the schedule of the weekly cleaning operations of the public swimming pools, please visit the following websites: www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/beach/swim-intro/swim-location-hk.html (for swimming pools in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon) and www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/beach/swim-intro/swim-location-nt.html (for swimming pools in the New Territories).

Ends/Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Issued at HKT 11:00

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