Acton Facility Where Boy Nearly Drowned Disputes Claim It Was Not Licensed

The Acton sports facility where a 4-year-old boy nearly drowned Wednesday disputed a claim that it was operating without a license.

The Acton boy was enrolled in a summer camp at Teamworks, police said. At about 11 a.m., a lifeguard pulled the boy from the pool after he was discovered unconscious. Rescue personnel arrived and revived the child.

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Acton Health Director Doug Halley said Teamsworks didn’t have a license to operate the summer camp.

“The Health Department did not give a verbal go ahead this year or any other year,” Halley told Acton Patch.

Teamsworks released this statement:

Teamworks Acton has operated a summer camp in Acton for the past 20 years. In every year that we have operated the summer camp, the Town Board of Health would verbally advise us that we were authorized and approved to operate, and in every year, the verbal approval was followed up several weeks later, after the summer camp had started, with a written letter of permit. This year was no different. We were verbally advised by the Town Board of Health that we were approved to operate the summer camp on June 11th, 2015, via email by Sheryl Ball from the Town Board of Health. As has been the case in every prior year, we have not yet received the usual follow-up written permit from the Board. We know of absolutely no reason for the Town Board of Health to suggest that we were not fully licensed to operate the summer camp. We were given the same verbal approval by the Town that we have been given each and every prior year.

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Photo: The outdoor pool at Acton Teamworks where a boy nearly drowned Wednesday.