The words, terms or phrases listed below for the purpose of
this chapter, except when the context requires a different meaning,
shall be defined as follows:
CONSTRUCTION
Includes building or installing a new swimming pool or enlarging
an existing swimming pool or any of its facilities.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies,
firms and partnerships, as well as individuals.
PORTABLE POOL
Any above-surface-type pool of more than one-hundred-cubic-foot
capacity, not stationary or fixed and capable of being removed for
storage.
PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL
Includes any pool of water having a water depth in excess
of 18 inches and an area greater than 120 square feet designed, used
and maintained for swimming purposes by an individual for use by his
household and guests without fees and located on property owned, leased
or otherwise used and maintained by the owner of said swimming pool;
it shall further mean and include fill and draw, flow-through and
recirculation pools which are artificially constructed to provide
recreational facilities for swimming, bathing or wading, and all buildings,
equipment and appurtenances thereto. It shall not include natural
outdoor ponds, rivers or lakes, nor baths used for cleansing of the
body or practice of the healing arts.
WADING POOL
Includes any artificially constructed pool intended for use
by children, not designed or used for swimming, with a maximum area
of 120 square feet and a maximum water depth of 18 inches.
All materials used in the construction of private swimming pools
or wading pools shall be waterproof and so designed and constructed
as to facilitate emptying and cleaning and shall be maintained and
operated in such manner as to be clean and sanitary at any time when
any such pool shall be in use or at such times as the same shall be
subject to use. Inlets of the treated water shall be so located and
spaced as to secure satisfactory dispersion of the water throughout
the pool and not to interfere with draining, cleaning and disinfecting
of the bottom and sides. Sand or earth bottoms shall not be used.
All private swimming pools, wading pools or portable pools with
a water depth of more than one foot, hereafter constructed, installed,
established or maintained within the Township of Riverside, shall
be provided with the necessary equipment to completely pump out or
empty said pool or shall be emptied by providing one drainage outlet
to be installed at the lowest point of said pool, not in excess of
three inches in diameter, extending from said pool to either a storm
sewer, storm sewer catch basin, lawn watering system, adequate dry
well or sand filtering pit on the premises on which said private pool,
wading pool or portable pool is located. The discharge of water from
such pools into a storm sewer shall be permitted only where the capacity
is adequate as determined by the Township Engineer. No private pool
drain, wading pool drain or portable pool drain shall be connected
into the sanitary sewer system. Pool water may not be discharged at
the curb or upon the surface of any street. The discharge of said
waters shall in no case cause or create a nuisance to the abutting
property or to the public.
Chlorine gas bearing compounds in solution shall be required
as disinfecting agents for swimming pools, wading pools or portable
pools. The use of ozone, ultraviolet light or any other method wherein
a residual cannot be determined is prohibited. Not more than 15% of
the samples of water taken from any private pool shall contain more
than 250 pathogenic organisms per cubic centimeter or shall show positive
test (confirmed) for coliform in any of 10 cubic centimeter portions
of water at times when the pool is ready for use; provided, however,
that no fewer than three samples shall disclose the presence of a
bacteria content in excess of the above-described limits. For the
purpose of this section, any number of samplings of water on a single
day shall be considered as one sample. The Local Board of Health is
hereby authorized to take samples to ensure compliance with these
requirements. Free chlorine residuals and pH values shall be maintained
within ranges indicated below:
pH
|
Free Chlorine Residual
(parts per million)
|
---|
7.0 to 7.6
|
0.4 to 0.6
|
8.0 to 8.4
|
2.0 to 5.0
|
No artificial lighting shall be maintained or operated in connection
with a private swimming pool, wading pool or portable pool in such
a manner as to be a nuisance or an annoyance to neighboring properties.
Such lighting shall not shine directly upon any abutting property.
No unshielded lights shall be permitted.
[Amended 8-23-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-18]
Any person, firm, corporation, association or legal party whatsoever who shall violate, or authorize or procure a violation, or cause to be violated, any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided under Chapter
1, Article
II, General Penalty.