The chemical and physical quality of the water shall be as prescribed
in the recommendations of the American Public Health Association's current
edition of Recommended Practice for Design, Equipment and Operation of Swimming
Pools and Bathing Places. Licenses shall be suspended automatically if the
minimum requirements as provided are not complied with.
The Board of Health of the Borough of Glenolden will determine what
purification processes are necessary to maintain the standards herein required.
When filtration equipment is provided or required, such equipment shall operate
at a rate of filtration not to exceed three gallons per square foot per minute
with an eight-hour turnover and wash rate of 12 to 15 gallons per square foot
per minute.
Bromine, liquid chlorine, sodium or calcium hypochloride or other approved
chlorine compounds shall be used for swimming pool disinfection. The amount
of free chlorine residual in the water at all times when the pool is in use
shall not be less than 0.4 part per million nor exceed 1.0 part per million.
Bromine, using a bromine test kit, shall not fall below 1.0 part per million
nor exceed 3.0 parts per million, and when using a chlorine test kit, shall
not fall below 0.5 part per million nor exceed 1.5 parts per million.
The water at all times when the pool is in use shall show an alkaline
reaction of not less than 7.2 pH and not exceeding 7.8 pH for chlorine, and
for bromine reaction shall show a pH of 7.1 and not exceeding 7.5 pH.
At all times when the pool is in use the water shall be sufficiently
clear to permit a black disk six inches in diameter in a white field, when
placed on the bottom of the pool at the deepest point, to be clearly visible
from the sidewalk around the pool.
The water of any inside pool shall be heated to a temperature of 69°
F. to 72° F. The temperature of the air surrounding an artificially heated
swimming pool shall not be permitted to become more than 8° F. warmer
nor more than 2° F. cooler than the water in a pool at any time when the
pool is in use.