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The Industry Hills Aquatic Club (IHAC) was a prominent USA Swimming club located in the City of Industry, California, from 1979 until August 2005.〔http://www.socalswim.org/News/Files/IHACFarewell.pdf〕 For almost three decades, the Club was a successful training ground for a considerable number of athletes, some achieving success at the highest levels of the sport, both nationally〔http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=241840〕 and internationally, such as the olympic games. In addition to swimming, the organization included water polo and diving teams composed of athletes achieving similar success. The Aquatic Center's pools also served the community as a popular venue for high school swim meets, youth swim lessons, and United States Masters Swimming. The organization ceased to exist in 2005 when the City of Industry decided to demolish the Industry Hills Aquatics Center. The pool was demolished four years later, in March 2009. ==Industry Hills Aquatic Center== The Industry Hills Aquatic Center complex included two pools, an eight-lane 25-yard shallow warm-up pool and a 50-meter olympic pool with seating for 3,000 spectators inclined on cement bleachers built upon an earthen embankment on the north side of the pool.〔http://www.brownfieldgolf.com/industry_hills_ss.htm〕 A 10-meter diving tower stood on the southern side of the olympic pool, most famously used in the Rodney Dangerfield film, Back to School. The swim complex shared locker facilities with a 17-court tennis facility that bordered the northern side of the swimming pools. The swim complex, designed by Tom Dakon with many innovative features conducive to competitive swimming,〔''Id.''〕 was just one part of a much larger adaptive reuse project〔http://turf.lib.msu.edu/1980s/1980/800110.pdf〕—the Industry Hills Recreation Center development—currently known as the Pacific Palms Resort,〔http://www.pacificpalmsresort.com/〕 formerly a Sheraton Hotels and Resorts property. The development comprises over , which include two golf courses;〔http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_news/industry_hills_sheraton〕 a driving range; a 292-room resort hotel tower; two restaurants; notable convention facilities; an spa; an equestrian center (the Industry Hills Expo Center); and one of the few funicular incline railways in the world, constructed to transport golf carts between holes on the complex greens. Prior to its current form, the site was a large refuse disposal site that accumulated some 3.5 million tons of waste from 1951 until 1969, characterized by "subterranean fires, pollution, exposed debris, unsightly cut slopes, and barren earth."〔http://www.brownfieldgolf.com/industry_hills_ss.htm〕 Extensive grading, contouring and landscaping transformed the site into a lush green-space development that serves as an attractive setting for the facilities located at the site. This successful adaptive reuse has been noted and followed by many other similar projects due to its innovative design, construction, landscaping and use of reclaimed water〔Michael P. Kenna (1984). ''Wastewater Reuse for Golf Course Irrigation''. United States Golf Association, American Society of Golf Course Architects. pp. 271.〕 and methane gas.〔http://www.brownfieldgolf.com/industry_hills_ss.htm〕 In 1981, the development was chosen by ''Civil Engineering Magazine'' as the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement of 1981.〔''Id.''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Industry Hills Aquatic Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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