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Responses to Question 2: Other places I swim

Out of town Thetford water hole 9/12/2016 6:41 AM View respondent's 9/10/2016 12:57 PM View answers respondent's answers UVAC 9/11/2016 2:09 PM View respondent's 9/10/2016 12:29 PM View answers respondent's answers We used to swim at the Hartford Pool uvac when we were residents there and 9/10/2016 11:51 AM View very much having a local pool in our respondent's answers town that kids can bike to and use Post Pond UVAC and Leb outdoor regularly to meet their friends! pool 9/11/2016 10:46 AM View 9/10/2016 11:48 AM View respondent's answers respondent's answers Lake Mascoma, , Blood Rvc Brook 9/10/2016 11:45 AM View 9/11/2016 7:53 AM View respondent's respondent's answers answers Anywhere on the River-- ocean free of charge! 9/11/2016 7:40 AM View respondent's 9/10/2016 9:13 AM View respondent's answers answers I'm blanking on the name of the pond, None but the parking area is by the Wilder 9/10/2016 9:04 AM View respondent's Dam. On the NH side of the river. You answers walk about 10 minutes up into the Lake Morey woods. No boats, only swimming, 9/10/2016 9:02 AM View respondent's fishing from the shore. Sorry I can't answers remember the name! woodstock 9/11/2016 7:32 AM View respondent's 9/10/2016 8:40 AM View respondent's answers answers Lake Winnipesauke. , UVAC 9/10/2016 9:45 PM View respondent's 9/10/2016 8:39 AM View respondent's answers answers Hampton beach nh Lake Morey 9/10/2016 8:04 PM View respondent's 9/10/2016 7:55 AM View respondent's answers answers Boston Lot Lots of swimming holes and public 9/10/2016 4:45 PM View respondent's pond access within reach answers 9/10/2016 7:52 AM View respondent's state parks answers 9/10/2016 4:26 PM View respondent's Warren, Waitsfield, Silver Lake answers 9/10/2016 7:35 AM View respondent's Goose Pond answers 9/10/2016 3:50 PM View respondent's at a lake out of state answers 9/10/2016 6:34 AM View respondent's Lake Fairlee from rented cottage answers 9/10/2016 12:58 PM View ocean front or lakefront vacation respondent's answers cottages or resorts

1 9/9/2016 3:28 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 12:19 PM View respondent's answers answers the brook running under elm and Lake Morey hopson 9/8/2016 11:54 AM View respondent's 9/9/2016 10:34 AM View respondent's answers answers Gym Lake Morey - but rarely swim now that 9/8/2016 11:44 AM View respondent's Norwich pool is unavailable. Simply answers don't have time or money to drive Out of State elsewhere. 9/8/2016 10:54 AM View respondent's 9/9/2016 10:06 AM View respondent's answers answers State Park I really heaven been since the Norwich 9/8/2016 10:12 AM View respondent's pool was damaged answers 9/9/2016 10:00 AM View respondent's lake champlain answers 9/8/2016 10:10 AM View respondent's We live on the Ompompanoosuc with answers an island providing our private deeper "pools" in local streams (cool swimming hole. off, not actually swim) 9/9/2016 9:33 AM View respondent's 9/8/2016 10:04 AM View respondent's answers answers Travel to warren falls Sandy beach thetford 9/9/2016 7:55 AM View respondent's 9/8/2016 10:03 AM View respondent's answers answers Mascoma Lake 9/9/2016 6:06 AM View respondent's 9/8/2016 10:03 AM View respondent's answers answers Will travel to find new swimming holes Lake Mascoma 9/8/2016 8:31 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 9:14 AM View respondent's answers answers North Hartland Lake, Hartland VT Lake Sunapee beach, Newbury docks 9/8/2016 5:21 PM View respondent's (Lake Sunapee) answers 9/8/2016 9:05 AM View respondent's Various swimming holes answers 9/8/2016 4:47 PM View respondent's Blood Brook answers 9/8/2016 9:01 AM View respondent's Post Pond, UVAC, , answers 9/8/2016 2:52 PM View respondent's answers 9/8/2016 8:29 AM View respondent's Lake Sunapee answers 9/8/2016 2:45 PM View respondent's white River answers 9/8/2016 8:26 AM View respondent's Barnard's Silver Lake answers 9/8/2016 1:04 PM View respondent's Used to swim at the Norwich Pool but answers haven't gone swimming locally since it white river washed out. 9/8/2016 12:36 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 8:24 AM View respondent's answers answers North Hartland Lake Quechee lake

2 9/8/2016 8:14 AM View respondent's 9/7/2016 1:59 PM View respondent's answers answers uvac Other nearby lakes that are more cost 9/8/2016 8:13 AM View respondent's effective than storrs answers 9/7/2016 1:53 PM View respondent's none of the above answers 9/8/2016 8:08 AM View respondent's I don't swim now, but found the answers Norwich Pool a great place to go when White river at bridge in Hartford my kids were young, for them to swim, 9/8/2016 7:53 AM View respondent's have swimming lessons, play with answers friends, and have a picnic. Caana St Lake 9/7/2016 1:39 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 7:34 AM View respondent's answers answers Boston Lot Note: None of these other swimming 9/7/2016 1:37 PM View respondent's spots replace the feelings of Norwich answers community spirit and natural Lake Morey peacefulness that the old Norwich Pool 9/7/2016 1:32 PM View respondent's engendered. answers 9/8/2016 4:10 AM View respondent's Upper Valley Aquatic Center answers 9/7/2016 1:07 PM View respondent's Connecticut River: River Rd Boat answers launch Maine 9/7/2016 10:30 PM View respondent's 9/7/2016 1:04 PM View respondent's answers answers none. I miss the Norwich swimming North Hartland Dam pool 9/7/2016 11:42 AM View respondent's 9/7/2016 8:34 PM View respondent's answers answers small local private pond lakes, brooks beyond the Upper Valley 9/7/2016 9:02 AM View respondent's 9/7/2016 7:08 PM View respondent's answers answers north heartland dam Silver lake River Valley Club 9/7/2016 7:19 AM View respondent's 9/7/2016 5:52 PM View respondent's answers answers White River Don't swim since pool lost in Hurricane 9/6/2016 2:04 PM View respondent's Irene answers 9/7/2016 3:47 PM View respondent's Lake Winnipesaukee answers 9/6/2016 10:49 AM View respondent's White River, etc. answers 9/7/2016 3:47 PM View respondent's White River answers 9/5/2016 8:48 PM View respondent's Seacoast of NH / ME answers 9/7/2016 2:05 PM View respondent's UVMC answers 9/5/2016 1:18 PM View respondent's Never swim answers 9/7/2016 2:00 PM View respondent's I swim at the beach, or indoor pools, or answers privately owned ponds Don't swim much anymore 9/4/2016 11:44 PM View respondent's answers

3 None 9/2/2016 6:50 PM View respondent's 9/4/2016 5:25 PM View respondent's answers answers not doing any swimming Lake Sunapee 9/2/2016 4:57 PM View respondent's 9/4/2016 2:02 PM View respondent's answers answers Sunapee Lake Pinneo-Quechee 9/2/2016 4:50 PM View respondent's 9/4/2016 9:11 AM View respondent's answers answers I don't usually swim but I could use the rarely swim, College dock 9/4/2016 9:05 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 4:21 PM View respondent's answers answers aquatic center Lake George, Atlantic Ocean, LI 9/4/2016 1:57 AM View respondent's Sound answers 9/2/2016 3:50 PM View respondent's River Valley Club answers 9/3/2016 9:25 PM View respondent's Once at Storrs Pond. Want a place to answers go in Norwich. Cherry Lane Beach in Eastman NH 9/2/2016 3:36 PM View respondent's 9/3/2016 9:00 PM View respondent's answers answers Boston Lot Reservoir used to go to Norwich Pool 9/2/2016 2:45 PM View respondent's 9/3/2016 6:20 PM View respondent's answers answers I haven't been swimming but probably White River, Silver Lake would at the RVC or the pool in WRJ. 9/3/2016 8:05 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 2:44 PM View respondent's answers answers Blood Brook Crystal lake 9/3/2016 7:48 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 2:41 PM View respondent's answers answers Dam in hartland; bloodbrook swim lessons at Dartmouth and UVAC 9/3/2016 7:45 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 2:41 PM View respondent's answers answers I used to swim at the Norwich don't swim in the summer swimming hole. There are no other 9/2/2016 2:17 PM View respondent's places to swim in Norwich. answers 9/2/2016 9:25 PM View respondent's Quechee Gorge, Lake Sunapee, White answers River rt 14 The chutes, bloodbrook 9/2/2016 2:01 PM View respondent's 9/2/2016 9:03 PM View respondent's answers answers Lake Morey don't believe public swimming access 9/2/2016 2:01 PM View respondent's needed answers 9/2/2016 8:37 PM View respondent's White River, Boston Lot Lake answers 9/2/2016 1:39 PM View respondent's A place where Blood Brook (? or a answers smaller brook) pools briefly after it Neighbor's pond or the White River passes under Old Orchard Lane where 9/2/2016 1:15 PM View respondent's it hits Turnpike Road. Very small. answers UVAA

4 Responses to Question 3: Criteria 9/8/2016 2:52 PM View respondent's for a new swimming access answers A Dock Rather than struggle to find a Norwich 9/8/2016 1:04 PM View respondent's location and incur both initial and answers ongoing costs, I would favor a pact Do not support a new swimming spot with Hanover to allow Norwich 9/8/2016 10:54 AM View respondent's residents to use the Storrs Pond pool answers and pond recreational area either at no PlI'd like to see CT River access -- charge or at a subsidized cost exactly like Dartmouth dock across the 9/10/2016 10:04 AM View river. respondent's answers 9/8/2016 9:12 AM View respondent's I am not interested in replacing the answers Norwich Pool. I would like to make use The pool should be a major priority. It of existing resources. is a luxury and there are plenty of 9/10/2016 9:13 AM View respondent's other options around and greater answers needs in the town. Current location is accessible without 9/8/2016 9:01 AM View respondent's using high traffic roads. That means answers kids can bike, and that many people Within 3 miles can walk. Also, close 9/8/2016 8:31 AM View respondent's 9/10/2016 7:45 AM View respondent's answers answers All kids need a place to learn to swim we need to sue to get the old pool as a basic survival skill. It needs to be back, heritage and all that free and accessible to all Norwich kids. 9/9/2016 10:34 AM View respondent's 9/8/2016 8:18 AM View respondent's answers answers An important asset of the Norwich pool How about an in-ground salt water was that it was a place for pool? Much better than chlorine in my townspeople of all stripes to gather. It opinion. was pleasant spot to hang out, swim or 9/8/2016 8:12 AM View respondent's not. answers 9/9/2016 10:06 AM View respondent's Warmer water - the old "pool" was answers much too cold most of the time. There are plenty of excellent public 9/8/2016 7:34 AM View respondent's swimming holes/areas already. answers 9/9/2016 9:33 AM View respondent's Less than 2-3 miles from downtown answers 9/7/2016 10:30 PM View respondent's Cost! Norwich is too small a town to answers support this measure when there are I would be in favor of separate so many currently available options. swimming areas for children and 9/8/2016 10:50 PM View respondent's adults only. An outdoor lap pool with answers places to sit and read for grownups, PLEASE no pets! Dogs scare many and a place to get a sandwich or an children, dog poop is always an issue iced tea only would be a dream come 9/8/2016 9:52 PM View respondent's true. answers 9/7/2016 5:52 PM View respondent's I believe that Norwich needs another answers common area for young and old should be free to Norwich residents people to gather.

5 9/7/2016 3:47 PM View respondent's I don't think it's worth the expense answers building a swimming "pool" when there if admission, price has to be are plenty of other options locally reasonable 9/3/2016 11:28 AM View respondent's 9/7/2016 2:05 PM View respondent's answers answers Bulld a pond in Huntley Field? If new area, consider pairing with a 9/3/2016 8:05 AM View respondent's running track?? answers 9/7/2016 2:00 PM View respondent's Very important to have pet friendly answers areas as pets are being squeezed out Cost not prohibitive to families that of available areas. Dresden fields for can't afford storrs example. 9/7/2016 1:53 PM View respondent's 9/3/2016 8:03 AM View respondent's answers answers It would be nice to have a picnic area for our town, a natural feel of a along a brook, where children could swimming hole or pond would be best wade and play, like at the stream in our opinion. we loved the old between the Legion Hall and Huntley swimming hole meadows. Meadows 9/3/2016 7:02 AM View respondent's 9/7/2016 1:39 PM View respondent's answers answers I am not in favor of any swimming I prefer swimming locations that are location in Norwich. not overly regulated and tdo not 9/2/2016 3:35 PM View respondent's prohibit naturally occuring, adrenaline answers producing features. NO PETS!!! Last thing we need. 9/7/2016 11:33 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 2:41 PM View respondent's answers answers distance > 1 mi from D&W OK if site is Forget the old Norwich Pool location - otherwise right Get beach on CT RIver instead 9/7/2016 9:02 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 2:01 PM View respondent's answers answers Within 3 miles of D&W NO PETS please 9/6/2016 8:19 PM View respondent's 9/2/2016 2:01 PM View respondent's answers answers I think Norwich residents can use Ideally a natural area AND an inground Storr's Pond and the other sites you pool like Hanover or an area like listed above, which is why I checked Quechee Lakes swimming area neutral on these criteria. 9/2/2016 1:42 PM View respondent's 9/4/2016 5:53 PM View respondent's answers answers If it's expected that kids will walk to the Do NOT allow dogs pool it must be safe. It's not safe to 9/3/2016 9:25 PM View respondent's walk to the old location due to the cars answers whipping around the corner of beaver Some of these questions are hard to meadow answer: yes, needs some parking 9/2/2016 1:07 PM View respondent's (duh)Doesn't need to be fancy answers 9/3/2016 6:20 PM View respondent's Since I answered "Not Important" for answers #1, none of these isues are relevant. Responses to Quetsion 4: Potential spots for a new swimming access

6 9/10/2016 12:01 PM View access the Conn. River - similar to the respondent's answers Ledyard Canoe Club's swimming area. We have a number of natural 9/7/2016 5:52 PM View respondent's swimming options in and around answers Norwich. For a developed and CT river only safe for strong swimmers maintained option, I would explore the 9/7/2016 3:47 PM View respondent's cost and viability of an agreement with answers Hanover re Storrs Pond Dont mess with Patchen's unless you 9/10/2016 10:04 AM View have ALREADY talked to the family respondent's answers 9/7/2016 2:36 PM View respondent's rebuild or let it go. answers 9/10/2016 9:23 AM View respondent's Space for a track as well answers 9/7/2016 2:00 PM View respondent's i'm not sure of a few of the above, The answers old pool is the new pool! Sue to get it Keep it cold, keep it moving. back. 9/7/2016 11:33 AM View respondent's 9/9/2016 10:34 AM View respondent's answers answers Ompompan Boat launch is 'duck itch' None of the above. We don't need this! environment when hot weather. I'm 9/8/2016 10:50 PM View respondent's speaking from experience. answers 9/7/2016 9:02 AM View respondent's For example/Dorset VT/privately answers owned/Now to be Public I'm not familiar with the reservoir 9/8/2016 1:04 PM View respondent's mentioned above. answers 9/4/2016 5:53 PM View respondent's No artificial pool - enough with UVAC, answers Storr's Pond area, etc! NO TOWN POOL 9/8/2016 10:04 AM View respondent's 9/3/2016 7:21 AM View respondent's answers answers Storrs Pond area I am not in favor of any swimming 9/8/2016 9:47 AM View respondent's location in Norwich. answers 9/2/2016 3:35 PM View respondent's on conservation land across Bloody answers Brook from Brookside dr Area below Subaru Dealership, area 9/8/2016 9:14 AM View respondent's below old Mill off Elm, next to brook on answers big field on Hopson, pond on Allison I'm not sure where some of these Moscow's old farm, New Boston Brook spots are (Auxiliary Reservoir on somewhere. Brown Brook) though think the 9/2/2016 2:41 PM View respondent's selected spot should be fairly central answers and not way out of the way like Depends on if natural area or pool - Patchen's Point. pool should be close to town 9/8/2016 8:12 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 1:42 PM View respondent's answers answers Storrs Pond Rec Area Ompomp is CONTAMINATED. Why 9/8/2016 8:08 AM View respondent's would you put children in the toxic answers water there. ALSO why don't you force The question is swimming pool vs. a property owners on Hemlock Rd to place where Norwich Residents could STOP dumping their septics into the ompomp?

7 Responses to Questions 5 and 6: 9/11/2016 11:17 AM View Additional comments respondent's answers Sorry to all those who think it's a no- Free, for Norwich community, brainer option, but I'm not willing or welcoming to families and youth, able to shell out the $$$ charged by Paging spirit and atmosphere lost. Storr's Pond - nor do I want to schlep Very difficult to resolve. into Hanover during the hottest times 9/12/2016 10:33 AM View of the year. I live on this side of the respondent's answers river for a reason!!! (and I'd much The important thing about this is that rather travel farther to Trasure Island the pool was a place where community and pay less for a much nicer 'pond' could meet each other. This made a experience). The precious few really better, safer town for all of us. good swimming holes we have are 9/12/2016 9:30 AM View respondent's already getting mucked up by extra answers traffic. The old Norwich Pool was great In town is very important. A place - nothing fancy, just a quiet, refreshing where kids can walk to from rec camp place to take the kids & family to cool and other downtown locations. Having off. If I could dig a pond on my own something in Norwich is important as a property I would, but I can't so... let's community center. figure out a way to Make the Norwich 9/12/2016 6:41 AM View respondent's Pool Great Again! answers 9/10/2016 8:14 PM View respondent's I loved the fact that kids could bike to answers the old swimming hole after sports Thank you for doing this. We miss the camp in the summer. It was close to Norwich Pool so much!! town, very accessible, and very safe. It 9/10/2016 8:04 PM View respondent's was a great rite of passage for middle answers schoolers to be able to go their own limited cost would be good- there are their own. My kids are past this age, lots of options already in the area. but would still enjoy it, and I would love 9/10/2016 4:26 PM View respondent's to see this opportunity for the new answers middle schoolers of Norwich, as well At the very least can the town, with as for the whole town. It was a lovely, volunteers, clean up the old Norwich wonderful resource--and much less Pool site soon. It is so depressing to expensive to maintain and more walk by there. environmentally friendly and pleasant 9/10/2016 4:22 PM View respondent's than a chlorinated pool answers 9/11/2016 2:09 PM View respondent's Rebuild Norwich Pool! answers 9/10/2016 3:50 PM View respondent's I feel it is most important for children in answers Norwich to have a place to safely learn Thank you for developing this survey. to swim and enjoy water access in the Fingers crossed for a future town summer. The loss of the Norwich pool designated swimming spot! (which badly needed repairs) was 9/10/2016 3:24 PM View respondent's great. It is especially important answers because the children of the families I'd prefer that the town use existing that stay here all summer working natural river pools to spending a lot of need a nice safe place to go our tax dollars on constructing a pool swimming. or restoring the old pool.

8 9/10/2016 12:23 PM View 9/10/2016 9:02 AM View respondent's respondent's answers answers Private land. Would need to look at the I think it is unacceptable that neither size of the body of water and ability for Hanover or Norwich have no free beach, BBQing etc. swimming and offer no free swim 9/10/2016 12:01 PM View lessons. Lyme offers both. Swimming respondent's answers is one of the few sports that can be Patchens point is currently used continued into old age and Norwich is mainly by drug users. Having it more one of the richest towns in the Upper visible may entice them to move to Valley. Storrs Pond is quite expensive someone else's town. for families who are not wealthy - 9/10/2016 11:45 AM View despite the fact that some our respondent's answers residents consider it "very affordable." Please consider a salt water pool 9/10/2016 8:54 AM View respondent's instead of a chlorinated one. They are answers healthier for the environment and for Even if the current pool is not fixed up, the swimmers. We are new to the that location should be cleaned up. area, so do not have much opinion on The falling apart structures and the location. It seems like the old area equipment are litter at this point. In all was an important part of the honesty we should return it to nature community and is the only thing as she has already started the work. lacking in this otherwise amazing town. 9/10/2016 8:40 AM View respondent's 9/10/2016 9:55 AM View respondent's answers answers We have enough costs that concern This should not be a priority for ALL Norwich residents without the taxpayers. Enough already. No snack additional cost of a pool that benefits a bars, canoe access, clorination, etc. If handful of nostalgic's. you can rebuild a similar place, great. 9/10/2016 8:19 AM View respondent's Otherwise, let people explore and find answers the many other places for a dip. And Swimming outside in the summer is PLEASE....no talk of subsidizing fees important for families and children. I to Storrs Pond. Honestly, if the swim hope our town can find a solution to hole (which I loved) has gone away for return swimming to Norwich. good, let it go. And let people take 9/10/2016 8:18 AM View respondent's responsibility for their own enjoyment answers spots. Thank you all for your time on There is no need for the Town of this topic. Norwich to provide for public 9/10/2016 9:23 AM View respondent's swimming. We are a tiny town and answers there are LOTS of swimming options I would not like to pay additional taxes available within easy reach. to support the development of a new 9/10/2016 7:52 AM View respondent's swimming place. answers 9/10/2016 9:13 AM View respondent's Thank you for taking this on. I think answers having public gathering places for Really appreciate swimming in natural families and young children are bodies of water. Also I think it is important to strengthening a sense of important to have swimming resources community. Even though my children in town for our children to learn to are grown, I support this for the young swim. families I want to have in my community. The current location is

9 accessible and has the added benefit I don't often swim now; my answers of being near trails for walking and are from my perspective when our kids running, so can meets the needs of were little. diverse groups. Also has parking. 9/9/2016 9:44 AM View respondent's Would be great to resist the temptation answers of having everything be too polished We may be taxed as the wealthiest and manufactured. We live in a rural town in , but there is no area. Let's allow some aspects of our reason to increase that perception. life to be natural. My kids loved playing Therefore let the residents learn to on the edges of ponds and streams. provide for themselves and discover They don't need a fancy pool with their own entertainment. fancy changing rooms and snack bars. 9/9/2016 9:33 AM View respondent's It is ok to cherish a little simplicity, and answers learn how to take care of it. I hope Why is this considered a necessity? I other generations of Norwich children would rather see a town owned and have this privilege. operated ski hill! You can swim almost 9/10/2016 7:45 AM View respondent's anywhere. answers 9/8/2016 10:50 PM View respondent's I am a homeowner in Norwich living answers full time and do not agree that this Despite what some folks on the listserv project should go forward in any way. are saying about funds being used for There are far more important issues. a swimming hole in Norwich when 9/10/2016 7:42 AM View respondent's there are so many in the UV, I would answers very much like to see a public I'd rather have a rec center. Swimming swimming option in Norwich. season is short. Sometimes all you need on a hot 9/10/2016 7:20 AM View respondent's summer day is to jump in and cool off answers and then get on with your day; why Having a designated public swimming should we have to drive to other towns area builds community! We are sorely in order to do that? Thank you for your missing this summer gathering spot! efforts! 9/9/2016 5:03 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 5:21 PM View respondent's answers answers Just rebuild the norwich pool where is If the old Norwich pool isn't renovated was originally. Everyone loves that into a new Norwich pool, can the yown spot. at least use some of the FEMA money 9/9/2016 11:21 AM View respondent's to clean up the area? There is debris answers downstream; the changing rooms are The old pool is the perfect place. It is a dangerous and an eyesore; and pieces community treasure that our old TM of the dam are scattered along the failed to try to preserve. We should not river banks. It would be nice to at the all pay the price for Neil Fulton's wry least clean up the area and make avarice, incompetence, and neglect. a nice picnic area along the stream. 9/9/2016 10:34 AM View respondent's 9/8/2016 5:18 PM View respondent's answers answers Not familiar with some of these spots, I don't think we need a fancy pool, but but swimming next to a swimming hole or area where folks (or similar) sounds unpleasant to me. can gather is worth the small 9/9/2016 10:06 AM View respondent's investment. I'd be willing to help on answers this front. [email protected]

10 9/8/2016 2:52 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 10:04 AM View respondent's answers answers People with swimmable Falls ought to Can you just bulldoze a hole and not be happy to see folks' happy smiles of dam up the present spot? I love the relief, and share. grassy area, there were picnic tables 9/8/2016 1:04 PM View respondent's and grills. It's 10 degrees cooler at the answers old pool. There's plenty of parking. We believe the select board should be 9/8/2016 10:03 AM View respondent's spending time and town resources on answers more substantive and progressive Ideally within walking distance from projects. There are more than enough center of town. There are several flat swimming spots in this area. sections next to Bloody Brook: Huntley 9/8/2016 12:20 PM View respondent's Mdw, behind St. Francis, between answers Hopson & Elm (see above). I grew up going to the Norwich Pool 9/8/2016 9:14 AM View respondent's and it saddens me that my children answers don't have the same experience. I do So many great places to swim in the hope something can be replaced UV. This seems like a waste of time there! and money. A true "first world" 9/8/2016 12:19 PM View respondent's problem if ever there was one. answers 9/8/2016 9:01 AM View respondent's Negotiate a Norwich rate with the answers Hanover Improvement Society for I think there are many options already summer use at the Storrs Pond/Pool available. Storr's Pond is a wonderful area. facility and there are many bodies of 9/8/2016 10:54 AM View respondent's water, ponds, streams and rivers, to answers choose from. I'm afraid that it might be time to 9/8/2016 9:00 AM View respondent's realize that replacing the Norwich Pool answers is hopeless. We missed our The pool was a perfect place to send opportunity to quickly (and quietly?) kids in the summer. Easy to get to and repair the old pool and/or remove the safe. With this gone where do kids go old dam upstream as an hang out? environmentally-responsible trade-off. 9/8/2016 8:59 AM View respondent's The best-case scenario as I see it answers would be to get an excavator to the old I do not think tax dollars should be site to remove the debris (a monument used for this. There are other options to Norwich's ineffective town around for those who need them. government) and deepen the channel 9/8/2016 8:44 AM View respondent's to create a natural pool. Yes, this answers would be temporary. In addition, Why does this committee exist demolition of the upstream dam should 9/8/2016 8:37 AM View respondent's be done quickly and cheaply with answers explosives (lots, yet) rather than by Keep it simple and fix the dam! ! some expensive engineering project 9/8/2016 8:26 AM View respondent's that will cost at least tens of thousands answers of dollars and potentially have less Cost sharing with Storrs pond would environmental impact. Think of all the be the most efficient. sand which will be available for 9/8/2016 8:18 AM View respondent's beaches at the old pool! answers

11 It would be best if we can ride bikes to 9/7/2016 5:52 PM View respondent's the site, kids can't ride up wheelock to answers storrs or out rt 5 to ompompinoosic ( I don't think Norwich needs a 9/8/2016 8:14 AM View respondent's swimming area, nor do I think it is the answers best use of limited funds. Storrs Pond We don't need a pool. seems sufficient to me. Will be VERY 9/8/2016 8:13 AM View respondent's UNHAPPY to have my tax dollars answers spent on this. I don't want any of my tax dollars spent 9/7/2016 5:36 PM View respondent's on this. If people need to swim, there answers are plenty of places to go for a small I like a natural pond, not a cement fee or no fee. We will soon be paying pool. off the bond for the police and fire 9/7/2016 3:47 PM View respondent's station. Norwich does not need any answers additional burdens placed on the The Town's refusal to comply with taxpayers. State law and FEMA requirement to 9/8/2016 8:08 AM View respondent's construct an in-stream pool at the answers Norwich Pool sight is VERY dismaying The in-town accessibility is crucial. We for me at multiple levels, not the least feel strongly that kids can bike, walk to of which is throwing away publicly the pool from town. available funds to reconstruct an 9/8/2016 7:51 AM View respondent's historic resource that was washed answers away in Irene... Either a man-made pool or a natural 9/7/2016 3:47 PM View respondent's pond would be fine - important bits are answers access for small children, and no fees We do not need to spend tax money to visit for residents. Even if Norwich on this! Just work out a Norwich just subsidized memberships for resident rate with storrs pond! They everyone at Storr's Pond, that would need the money! suit me. 9/7/2016 3:44 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 7:34 AM View respondent's answers answers There are plenty of places to swim in Old Norwich Pool site was very the area ! I am adamantly opposed to important close to center of town spending one penny of taxpayer community gathering place for all money for this ages. 9/7/2016 2:36 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 4:10 AM View respondent's answers answers I don't want to see an increase in taxes Too bad old location not viable. attributable to the swimming area. Something with a similar feel would be 9/7/2016 2:25 PM View respondent's appealing. Getting in the car to drive to answers Storrs Pond to pay to swim is Clean water, not too vulnerable to ridiculous droughts, safe access, easy for kids 9/7/2016 10:30 PM View respondent's and elders answers 9/7/2016 2:15 PM View respondent's It would be nice to be able to swim no answers matter what the time of day. I'm sure We are happy using Storr's Pond but it liability is a big issue. How does is pricey for our family since we have Woodstock's pool work? one income and 3 kids. We only use

12 the pond there and love it but it cost us None. over $300 for the summer pass - yikes! 9/7/2016 1:04 PM View respondent's 9/7/2016 2:05 PM View respondent's answers answers Any chance to just dig out and deepen Private funding for costs in excess of an area where the old pool was, available federal funds, especially if a without a dam? Would enough water track is feasible/added collect there to make this a viable 9/7/2016 2:00 PM View respondent's alternative? answers 9/7/2016 1:03 PM View respondent's I think kids and families should have a answers place to both enjoy the outdoors with Selfishly, one of my main swimming and other activities. Kids considerations is the time it will take to also need a place where they can get a new pool location up and learn to swim. running. My children were 4-5 when 9/7/2016 1:59 PM View respondent's Irene struck, so they have really spent answers an important part of their childhood I think it would be nice to have Norwich without access to swimming in the only swimming area. The places on town. If it took another five years, they the Connecticut river are always filled would essentially lose out on up with Dartmouth college kids and something that generations of Norwich high school kids. I just think it would be children have enjoyed. nice like fairlee to have are own place 9/7/2016 11:42 AM View respondent's with a pass to swim. I have 3 kids and answers I enjoyed swimming growing up when My strong preference is same old site. places had less people and were more Impt to me is 'natural' watersite, enjoyable. There really isn't anywhere lowkey. Don't want chlorine pool or for to swim anymore except packed entry fee. places. My kids don't know how to 9/7/2016 9:02 AM View respondent's swim well because of it. I had a cousin answers that lived in fairlee and I was able to go Norwich does not need an in-town to the beach then and it was swimming area dedicated to its awesome. I just wanted to throw that residents. out there. Spending all that money to 9/6/2016 3:28 PM View respondent's allow anyone band then Norwich answers residents who pay for it won't be able There are easily-accessible swimming to enjoy it. opportunities in all of the surrounding 9/7/2016 1:49 PM View respondent's towns. I don't think it's critical for answers Norwich to develop swimming access. I hear Storrs Pond loses a lot of money 9/6/2016 9:12 AM View respondent's every year. I think supporting them to answers ensure we never lose that gem is more I'm not sure how important it is (budget important than Norwich spending or otherwise) to put a permanent pool money on a Norwich swimming hole. in Norwich. UVAC, CCBA, Storr's First ensure the survival of Storrs and Pond, RVC and numerous swimming maybe create a discounted Norwich holes provide all kinds of options. I pass system by proposing the Town of liked the former swimming hole, but Norwich help fund Storrs Pond out of I've found plenty of alternatives. I also the town budget each year. don't see how this town will spend a 9/7/2016 1:37 PM View respondent's dime if it took this long to approve answers budget for the public safety facility.

13 Finally, putting in something like an taxpayer dollars to develop one of their actual pool will only draw people away own. from already established upper valley 9/4/2016 9:05 AM View respondent's facilities that are not exclusive to those answers towns. Lots of areas listed - parking and easy 9/5/2016 8:44 AM View respondent's access necessary as well as shade, answers sand and grass, picnicking The idea of Norwich having to provide 9/3/2016 9:25 PM View respondent's its own pool is ludicrous. Storrs Pond answers loses about $100,000 a year for the i think it is really important for Norwich Hanover Improvement Society, and is to have its own swimming area. The a wonderful facility, with a new water former pool was terrific and I wish we park, life guards, etc. I do not could duplicate it somewhere else. understand the need to have one here 9/3/2016 8:42 PM View respondent's at taxpayer expense; those who want answers to swim can drive to NH and enjoy a I don't know what most of these fine facility at minimal expense. proposed spots are like, or how access 9/5/2016 6:06 AM View respondent's would work (dam at Huntley meadw? answers Flooding what area. Why would VT I don't see why all of the tax payers of allow that & not old site? Some of Norwich should have to pay for a pool Pompy places seem pretty scuzzy. that only a few select people want (and Good luck. Worth cause Forget would use). Even if a pool was made I chlorinated pool; ppl can go to Storrs would never use it. I think that if these or RVC people want a pool so much they 9/3/2016 6:20 PM View respondent's should raise the money themselves answers instead of making everyone else (who Would prefer not to spend anymore doesn't necessarily want it) pay for it. taxes money on a place to swim. Don't 9/4/2016 11:44 PM View respondent's feel that it is necessary for the town to answers have a place to swim Norwich does not need its own site - 9/3/2016 3:38 PM View respondent's Storrs Pond is great. Our kids go to answers Hanover schools. Supporting Hanover I don't think we need a pool in Norwich Rec is therefore also important. when Storr's Pond, the Connecticut 9/4/2016 6:11 PM View respondent's River (and numerable other swimming answers areas) are available within 1/2 hour I'm not in favor of spending a lot of drive. money on a swimming area when 9/3/2016 12:58 PM View respondent's there are so many already available. answers Thank you for asking. Taxes are already high; please don't 9/4/2016 5:53 PM View respondent's spend money on something most answers residents will never use Don't spend any tax $ 9/3/2016 11:28 AM View respondent's 9/4/2016 5:25 PM View respondent's answers answers This swimming hole does not have to As there are several nearby towns that be state of the art- it shouldn't be! Just offer a variety of indoor and outdoor a place to get cooled off, and for swimming facilities, I do not feel the parents of young children to gather for municipality of Norwich should use any sand play and wading.

14 9/3/2016 8:33 AM View respondent's river would just be piped in and answers out...seems like a simple solution that We miss the pool. Hurricant Irene was would (might?) solve over 5 years ago! environmental/regulatory challenges 9/3/2016 8:05 AM View respondent's 9/3/2016 7:19 AM View respondent's answers answers build a pool at Huntley and charge Please be mindful to not muck up access, lower rates for town. Have already quiet places we have in the changing and restrooms. Norwich area. I hope you are truly 9/3/2016 7:41 AM View respondent's capturing whether their is a need and answers not "finding a solution, looking for a Thank you for the opportunity to problem". Thx comment. For me, the biggest issue 9/3/2016 7:05 AM View respondent's will be the cost. Like many Norwich answers residents, I feel taxes are high, and do not feel public money should be though I am willing to pay for services, spent on this issue until/unless user depending on the cost of the fees will cover the entire cost pool/swimming area, it might be best 9/2/2016 8:37 PM View respondent's to not move forward. We're about to answers vote on a bond issue for the new The old site of the Norwich Pool is a police/fire buildings, and we still need magical place. It is not just for to figure out what we're doing with the nostalgia's sake that I wish to restore a Public Works facility (FEMA money, or swimming access point there - I ours?). Adding yet another layer of believe it had all the most essential cost on top of that would be a lot. I features of a Norwich swimming realize it's the school portion of the tax access point and gathering place: a bill that's the big culprit, but we should small, grassy picnic spot; a small, still be diligent about keeping the child-friendly beach and swimming increases for the town tax portion to a area; a nice spot from which to jump; minimum. Property taxes are my and above all, a place where biggest concern about being able to townspeople could come to enjoy a continue to live, and eventually retire, tranquil but joyful swim in natural in Vermont. Thank you again. waters in a beautiful setting in nature. 9/3/2016 7:40 AM View respondent's 9/2/2016 6:50 PM View respondent's answers answers It is my opinion that no swimming The CT river or the Ompompanoosuc facility should be proposed or built in would be the logical locations since Norwich at the taxpayers expense. there is abundant water. There are many locations with a 10 9/2/2016 4:21 PM View respondent's minute drive that people can swim at. answers 9/3/2016 7:21 AM View respondent's Thanks for the work you're doing answers taking this on. Current spot is so great because it is 9/2/2016 3:50 PM View respondent's so close to town, but even nice it is answers directly on a fantastic walking/running I am not in favor of spending any town trail. I have often wondered why money to fund a swimming location in smaller pond was not constructed at Norwich. the current site, one that allowed the 9/2/2016 3:35 PM View respondent's river to run around the pond so that no answers dam would be required and water from

15 It would be nice if kids could get there 9/2/2016 1:08 PM View respondent's safely on bikes or walking answers 9/2/2016 2:45 PM View respondent's The swimming area should be self answers supporting. Various fees can support I am not sure it is really important to the endeavor rather than adding to the have a swimming "pool" in Norwich, tax base for everyone. I would like to because there are other opportunities see an area for people who do not in the Upper Valley where one can have children. Most of our town swim. resources go toward children. I love 9/2/2016 2:44 PM View respondent's children but we need to consider answers others. 1.) There are many ponds and streams 9/2/2016 12:56 PM View respondent's around, lots of options. Keep thinking answers until something works. 2.) Please don't You should have asked if we ever block AO passage. If necessary, then used the old Norwich Pool. We didn't provide for passage. so are not interested in a "new" 9/2/2016 2:41 PM View respondent's Norwich pool and would not welcome answers any tax burden associated with a pool. There does not need to be a public 9/2/2016 12:54 PM View respondent's swimming spot provided by the town. answers There are plenty of other options for gain, thanks to you! I can't make this interested residents and taxpayers do meeting, but am grateful for your not need to subsidize this activity. efforts. 9/2/2016 2:17 PM View respondent's 9/10/2016 7:46 AM View respondent's answers answers An area with beach like Quechee lakes me too... would be nice. If pool, should be close 9/9/2016 10:34 AM View respondent's to downtown maybe next to a stream answers setting like Huntley or the old pool site. Thanks for taking on this task. Miss the 9/2/2016 1:42 PM View respondent's Norwich pool!!! - Storr's Pond is *not* answers even on my long list of potential I think Patchen and near Ledyard swimming spots. Bridge are potential dangerous places 9/9/2016 10:08 AM View respondent's to locate a swimming area due to answers currents and under water hazards. The Thank you all for your time and energy same could be said for the old on this project! it is greatly reservoir as it stands right now. appreciated!! 9/2/2016 1:15 PM View respondent's 9/8/2016 1:16 PM View respondent's answers answers doesn't need a designated child area, Henry Scheier but does need to have a child-safe 9/7/2016 2:00 PM View respondent's place to enter the water (e.g., no drop answers off). Some of the sites listed have Thank you for all your hard work. reported unsafe levels of E. coli and 9/3/2016 9:26 PM View respondent's Salmonella in the recent past. It may answers be impossible to eliminate that risk, but I am very much against ANY upstream contamination from swimming access in Norwich. Why agriculture and other contaminants does the committee think it must have should be an important consideration. it's own swimming facility?? There are many other options locally. Storr's

16 Pond is a fine facility. Residents of Norwich who wish to swim can buy a daily or yearly pass. Do NOT spend the taxpayers money on any swimming facility. 9/3/2016 7:26 AM View respondent's answers Thank you! See you there. 9/2/2016 6:51 PM View respondent's answers Unfortunately, will be out of town. Good Luck! 9/2/2016 3:50 PM View respondent's answers Thanks for working on this project

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