05:32 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAuthorities in the US state of Massachusetts are trying to find out how a body lay unnoticed in a swimming pool for more than two days as the public continued to use the facility.<\/p>\n
Marie Joseph, 36, had used a slide at the Veterans Memorial Pool in Fall River on Sunday but failed to return to the surface.<\/p>\n
A boy reportedly told staff but the body was only found when teenagers broke in for a clandestine night swim.<\/p>\n
The pool was described as “cloudy”.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts has closed dozens of state-run swimming pools while investigations continue.<\/p>\n
Two pool inspectors have been placed on administrative leave.<\/p>\n
‘Systematic breakdown’<\/span><\/p>\nHealth officials sought to allay public concern, saying the chlorine in the water would have offered protection.<\/p>\n
State public health medical director Dr Lauren Smith said: “I want to reassure the public that, as disturbing as it is to you, there are no health risks associated with this.”<\/p>\n
State energy and environmental affairs secretary Richard Sullivan told Associated Press: “The facts appear to indicate that a woman was in the water for a number of days and not noticed by staff, patrons or other inspections that may have taken place.”<\/p>\n
He said there had been “a breakdown systematically somewhere”.<\/p>\n
But he said he believed that normal procedures of checking pools after closure had been taken.<\/p>\n
“We undergo a procedure with each and every one of our pools. We believe all of those were in place here.”<\/p>\n
Ms Joseph, a native of Haiti, had five children.<\/p>\n
She had reportedly entered the slide with a nine-year-old boy who noticed she had not resurfaced. The pool is at most 4m (12ft) deep.<\/p>\n
One of Ms Joseph’s friends said the boy had told a lifeguard but that no checks were done and her friends thought she had simply left the pool.<\/p>\n
The body was found 58 hours later by a group of teenagers who jumped a locked fence at about 2200 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
One regular swimmer, Louie Cahill, told ABC: “The pool is 12ft deep. You cannot see anybody in the bottom of that pool.”<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Bristol County district attorney, Gregg Miliote, told CNN that a decomposing body could take a couple of days before becoming buoyant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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