Indiana Administrative Code › Title 410 - INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Article 6 - SANITARY ENGINEERING › Rule 7.2 - Youth Camps › Section 7.2-30 - Water recreation

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 16-19-3-4
Affected: IC 16-19-3
Sec. 30.
(a) An
				individual currently certified as a lifeguard and having a current
				cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification must direct swimming,
				boating, canoeing, watercraft, water skiing, and other aquatic
				activities.
(b) A minimum of one
				(1) counselor for each fifteen (15) campers shall supervise watercraft and
				swimming activities.
(c) At each
				aquatic site, a minimum of one (1) currently certified lifeguard for each
				thirty (30) campers must be provided.
(d) Swimming pools shall comply with
				410 IAC
				6-2 and 675 IAC 20.
(e) In addition to the requirements of
				410 IAC
				6-2 and 675 IAC 20, swimming pools less than two
				thousand (2,000) square feet shall have one (1) or more qualified lifeguards on
				duty when the pool is in use by campers.
(f) Watercraft activity participants must
				wear a Type II or Type III U.S. Coast Guard approved personal flotation
				device.
(g) Bathing beaches shall
				comply with the following:
(1) Camp 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 camp bathing beach, from the
				shoreline out to a water depth of six (6) feet, shall consist of pea gravel or
				other material approved by the department of natural resources 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 camp
				bathing beaches, 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
				camp 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) At least one (1)
				qualified lifeguard shall be on duty when the bathing beach is open to
				swimmers.
(13) A lifeguard shall be
				stationed at each diving area.
(14)
				Each lifeguard station shall have a clear and unobstructed view of the
				lifeguard's area of responsibility and at least one (1) lifeguard station at
				the diving area and on shore shall be an elevated stand.
(15) Land based lifeguard stations shall be
				located within thirty (30) feet of the shoreline.
(16) Lifeguard stations shall be equipped
				with a whistle or megaphone and sunglasses.
(17) When performing as a lifeguard,
				lifeguards shall not perform any other tasks and shall not be in the water
				except in the line of duty.
(18) A
				spine board equipped with ties or straps and a head immobilization device shall
				be provided at each aquatic location.
(19) A rescue tube shall be provided at each
				lifeguard station.
(20) Required
				safety equipment shall be kept clean, in good repair, and ready for
				use.