On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:59:00 -0500, Ignoramus17181
wrote:

The main safety consideration, as far as kids and pools are concerned,
is to have little enough water in the pool so that the smallest kid
can safely be in the pool, and high enough walls so that small kids
cannot climb there by themselves. I would suppose that some kids are not
able to follow rules, but in our house they know not to go there
without supervision until they are fully able to safely play in the
pool. It is better to err on the safe side.

i
When we moved her in1984, the house behind us had an above ground
pool. The owner offered to install a gate so that Junior (10) could
get together with his kids about the same age. I declined on the
grounds that a 200 foot walk was good exercise, not to mention that
said gate would access the pool area. The next owner had two "feral
children" around four and five years, who were allowed to play
completely unsupervised in the pool area once the inverted "V" ladder
had been taken out of the pool. It took these two kids less than a
week to figure out how to re-install the ladder. Fortunately the house
was resold in short order and within a week the pool was gone and a
garage/workshop started.
Fortunately, the fencing requirements are somewhat more stringent now.
A four foot high, horizontal board fence is no longer considered to be
an adequate pool enclosure.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada