Ocean View HS 50‐Meter Pool
The new 50‐meter pool at Huntington Beach Union High School District’s Ocean View High School is our current Knorr Systems’ Featured Aquatic Facility.
The Ocean View HS pool is a 50 meter (162’ 1”) x 25 yard (75 ft.)
state‐of‐the‐art instructional and competition “multi‐use” pool. It features a deck‐level “rimflow” gutter design, with a deep‐end dive well with two 1‐meter and one 3‐meter Durafirm diving board stands each with Durafirm Maxiflex “B” perforated diving boards. Fifteen KDI Paragon long‐reach Competitor starting platforms provide competitive swimmers the swiftest of starts, and KDI Paragon deck‐mounted water polo goals and AntiWave floating water polo goals and rink are used by the schools water polo teams.
The pool’s 756,000 gallons of water are filtered by a seven‐tank EKO3 filtration system. The 2,250 GPM flow rate required by this size of pool is circulated by a Paco split‐case 50 HP pump. 
The electrical energy consumption of this pump is greatly reduced by a Smart Pump Control System (SPCS), which saves the District tens of thousands of dollars in electrical costs each year. The pool water is heated by three Lochinvar CPN 1801 heaters, which operate at 89% thermal efficiency. A Strantrol Impact system provides for chemical, heater and mechanical room control. Sodium hypochlorite is used for the pool’s primary oxidizer/sanitizer, which is fed by a LMI metering pump, while an EKO3 pH‐MTS is used to feed CO2 in conjunction with muriatic acid to maintain both pH and Total Alkalinity.
Along with the electrical energy savings that come from the site’s Smart Pump Control System, T‐Star thermal pool blankets are used at Ocean View. The T‐Star covers save tremendous amounts of natural gas used to heat the pool, along with reducing the pool’s water consumption by over 40%. Overall, the T‐Star covers provide the District with over $70,000 in savings each and every year.
The Ocean View HS pool is an asset to the surrounding community. For many years, Ocean View High School had no pool. The aquatics program at OHS had to use one of HBUHSD’s other five schools’ pools for training and competition. All of that is now “ancient history.” In addition to its use by the school’s physical education classes, swim and water polo teams, many local aquatics groups lease the use of the pool in off‐hours.
