[Amended 12-11-1978 by Ord. No. 78-20]
Bathhouses shall not be required in conjunction with private swimming pools. Any construction, however, including a bathhouse or screen enclosure, shall conform to the requirements of Chapter
50, Construction Codes, Uniform, and Chapter
101, Zoning.
[Amended 12-11-1978 by Ord. No. 78-20]
All private swimming pools or portable pools
shall be provided with the necessary equipment for the drainage of
the pool and for backwash water disposal. The drainage from said pool
may be made either to lawns, fields, woods or an adequate dry well
or sand filtering pit on the premises on which said private pool or
portable pool is located, and provision must be made that the same
does not overflow onto property belonging to others. Pool water discharging
into a brook must have a minimum chlorine residual of 1/10 part per
million. The discharge of water from such pools into a storm sewer
or sanitary sewer shall be permitted only upon approval from the Borough
Engineer made upon written application and in accordance with the
regulations and recurring charges established by the Board of Public
Works. The area immediately adjacent to the pool shall be so designed
as to provide a slope to carry all surface waters away from the pool.
There shall be no physical connection with a
potable public or private water supply system. If a fill pipe is used,
the same must be installed at a minimum of two pipe diameters above
the pool rim. A fill line shall not be required, and pools may be
filled manually by hose.
No artificial lighting shall be maintained or
operated in connection with a private swimming pool or portable pool
in such a manner as to be a nuisance and annoyance to neighboring
properties. Such lighting shall not shine directly upon any abutting
property. No unshielded lights shall be permitted.
Pool water shall be periodically tested for
residual chlorine by the orthotolidine method and color comparator
having a set of standards for varying chlorine content which range
from 2/10 to 6/10 parts per million. The pH of the pool water shall
range from neutral 7.0 to slightly alkaline 7.6.
All pools supplied by a public water supply
system shall be subject to closure by proclamation of the Mayor and
Council during any period of emergency water shortage.