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Chlorine use takes a divein public-pool experiment

For Jazy Glassford, spending a good part of the day in chlorinated water is part of her job as aquatics coordinator at the Cumberland County YMCA Portland Branch on Forest Avenue.

So she learned to live with dried-out skin and straw-like hair from the levels of chlorine needed to keep the 150,000-gallon pool free of E. coli and other bacteria.

But in the past year, parched hair is no longer a problem, thanks to a program to reduce chlorine levels, she said.