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I’m vacationing this week with my family at a hotel with an indoor water park.\u00a0 Fun?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Safe?\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 In addition to having several lifeguards on duty throughout the water park — at the top and bottom of\u00a0each curvy\u00a0slide, along the lazy river, near the kiddie spray area — they can also boast a safe hot tub.\u00a0 Safe because the drains at the bottom of the spa are equipped with Anti-Entrapment Drain Covers<\/a>, also known as Anti-Vortex Drain Covers.<\/p>\n Anti-Entrapment Drain Covers are domed, or\u00a0in some way raised from the\u00a0flat surface at the bottom of the pool or spa\u00a0so that no body parts, clothing, or objects can\u00a0ever completely cover the drain and create a deadly\u00a0suction from which escape is extremely difficult.\u00a0 Thanks to the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act of 2007, all drains at public pools and spas must be fitted with Anti-Entrapment Drain Covers.\u00a0 Most public pools and spas have complied, but it’s worth it to double-check the drains\u00a0for yourself the next time you visit a public pool or spa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m vacationing this week with my family at a hotel with an indoor water park.\u00a0 Fun?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Safe?\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 In addition to having several lifeguards on duty throughout the water park — at the top and bottom of\u00a0each curvy\u00a0slide, along the lazy river, near the kiddie spray area — they can also boast a safe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[35,85],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-safety","tag-anti-entrapment-drain-covers","tag-drain-covers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}