Plus Pool is an initiative to build the world’s first water-filtering floating pool to be located in New York’s rivers. Designed by individuals from Family New York (Dong-Ping Wong) and PlayLab (Jeffrey Franklin and Archie Coates), Plus Pool was conceived when the trio realized that they could do virtually anything imaginable in New York City - everything except swim in the rivers on a hot summer day.

The Domino Sugar Refinery, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was originally built in 1882 with the oldest building still standing dating back to 1882. At one point (1870), the refinery processed over half of all the sugar used in the United States and in 2004 after operating for 148 years the factory was shut down. In 2007 three of the refinery buildings were given landmark status with the rest of the site being actively converted for residential use by the Two Trees Management company which plants on reconnecting the South Williamsburg area to the waterfront with parkland and a public esplanade. This site is easily accessible via. the L, E, R, and F trains as well as the East River Ferry. The site is about 30 minutes from Times Square and is within 20 minutes of the Mccarren Park Pool and 8 minutes of the Metropolitan Recreation Center.

The location for the Domino Sugar factory (avg. depth 35 ft) is located in a narrow area of the East River, just North of the Williamsburg Bridge. This site boasts impressive views of Manhattan, capturing several bridges, the Freedom Tower, the Empire State Building, Governors Island, the Statue of liberty, among many others. This site is within 290 feet of the navigable channel and experiences an intense current which averages 2.9 knots. Due to the narrowness of this location and the presence of the Williamsburg bridge, vessel traffic is heavily concentrated near the proposed site for the +Pool, which has an area of approximately 232,000 feet that stretches along the shore in an elongated North-South fashion. There are three tier 3 CSOs located near this location between Grand St. and South 8th St. - with one being located on S. 5th street near the southernmost point of the proposed site. Water quality at this location is healthy - and the nearly constant current appears to moves wastes and sediments away from the site at a high rate in a way similar to Transmitter Park. This area is becoming highly developed and there is currently much construction going on in the area.

*Samples were collected only on weekdays