One Cool Pool ; Forget Chemicals - a Buxton Pair Far Prefers Plants and Critters.

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Avery Pierce and Tom Lanucha share their swimming pool with birds, frogs and an occasional snake. The pool is a centerpiece of the extensive gardens on their four-acre property on the top of a hill in Buxton.

Pierce and Lanucha have a natural swimming pool, in which plant roots serve as filters to keep the pool clear and clean without the addition of chlorine and other harsh chemicals.

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One Cool Pool ; Forget Chemicals - a Buxton Pair Far Prefers Plants and Critters.

From a distance, the pool looks like the kind of stream swimming hole you remember from your youth if you are lucky, or from old movies and television shows if you are less lucky. Water gurgles and splashes over a short rock waterfall, then travels over a shallow area with a pebble floor where water lilies and other plants serve as a biological filte...

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