The summer swimming season is winding down, and the city earlier this month expanded its Swim Safe Boston programming, but city-owned pools in Dorchester and Mattapan remain closed and are unlikely to open before fall. According to a City Hall maintenance and safety survey of all municipal-owned pools published last week, a litany of problems affect the six city pools here,
Swimming instruction and recreational access to pools are core features of Mayor Wu’s summer youth plan, but there’s little lesson-taking, cooling off, or exercising in city-owned facilities in Dorchester and Mattapan this record-hot summer because all of the six city-owned pools in the two neighborhoods have been closed this season while waiting on deferred maintenance
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A probe into operations at a city-run community center in Mattapan found no malicious intent behind fees charged to members who signed up for swimming lessons. However, there remain concerns that the pool and other programming are not getting needed repairs at the Mildred Avenue center, run by Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF). The investigation began last summer