Indiana Administrative Code › Title 410 - INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Article 6 - SANITARY ENGINEERING › Rule 7.1 - Campgrounds › Section 7.1-27 - Swimming pools and bathing beaches

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 16-19-3-4
Affected: IC 16-19-3
Sec. 27.
(a)
				Swimming pools shall comply with
				410 IAC
				6-2 and 675 IAC 20. (b) Bathing beaches shall comply
				with the following:
(1) Campground bathing
				beaches shall have a water surface area of at least one (1) acre.
(2) A minimum of twenty-five (25) square feet
				of water surface per bather shall be provided in areas having a water depth
				less than four (4) feet.
(3) At
				least seventy-five (75) square feet of water surface per bather shall be
				provided in areas over four (4) feet deep.
(4) A minimum of thirty-five (35) square feet
				of land area shall be provided per bather.
(5) The campground bathing beach, from the
				shoreline out to a water depth of six (6) feet, shall consist of sand or pea
				gravel or other material to minimize turbidity.
(6) Floating marker lines securely anchored
				with buoys, spaced at intervals of no more than twenty-five (25) feet, shall be
				provided to designate the perimeter of the bathing area. Marker lines shall
				delineate the separation between the shallow (less than five (5) feet), deep,
				and diving areas. Depth markers shall be provided at diving areas.
(7) Toilet facilities shall be provided
				within five hundred (500) feet of the campground bathing beach, in the ratio of
				one (1) toilet for each fifty (50) bathers. Where flush toilets are provided,
				lavatories shall be provided in the ratio of one (1) lavatory for each fifty
				(50) bathers.
(8) Water samples
				shall be collected at the campground bathing beach for bacteriological
				examination and submitted to an approved laboratory for analysis. Samples shall
				be submitted in accordance with the following:
(A) One (1) sample at least two (2) weeks
				prior to opening.
(B) One (1)
				sample each week the bathing beach is open thereafter.
(C) One (1) sample after a heavy rainfall of
				at least one-half (½) inch.
(9) Bathing beach samples shall be collected
				within one (1) foot of the surface, in water having a depth of at least three
				(3) feet, but no more than six (6) feet and at least twenty (20) feet from
				swimmers and animals.
(10) The
				bathing beach must be closed if the beach water quality does not meet the
				following water quality standards:
(A)
				Escherichia coliform bacteria, using the membrane filter count, exceeds one
				hundred twenty-five (125) colonies per one hundred (100) milliliters as a
				geometric mean based on no less than five (5) samples equally spaced over a
				thirty (30) day period.
(B)
				Escherichia coliform bacteria using the membrane filter count exceeds two
				hundred thirty-five (235) colonies per one hundred (100) milliliters in any one
				(1) sample in a thirty (30) day period.
(C) The water has aquatic vegetation,
				deposits, growths, oil, grease, chemicals, or other substances capable of
				creating toxic reactions, skin, or membrane irritations, or a health or safety
				hazard.
(11) Results of
				each camp bathing beach water sample analysis must be reported to the
				department.
(12) The minimum safety
				equipment required at all bathing beaches shall include:
(A) a rescue tube; and
(B) a ring buoy with an attached rope at
				least forty-five (45) feet in length.
(13) Safety equipment shall be kept clean, in
				good repair, and ready for use.