Problematic pool deck at collapsed Florida building flagged 25 years ago

Concerns over the stability of a cracked pool deck at the collapsed Florida condo building raised flags as far back as 25 years ago, according to a new report.

The pool deck at Champlain Tower South, now the focus of a probe into the deadly collapse in Surfside, had 500 cracks that needed to be sealed and a 20-square-foot slab that needed to be replaced during a 1996 inspection, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. “The scope of work will be concrete structural repair in the parking garage,” Rob Sommer of Western Waterproofing Company of America said in a March 1996 letter to Surfside building officials, the Herald said.