New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 18 - AQUATIC VENUES
Part 1 - PUBLIC AQUATIC VENUES: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 7.18.1.26 - POOL WATER QUALITY
Universal Citation: 7 NM Admin Code 7.18.1.26
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Testing equipment:
(1) All public aquatic venues
shall have fully functional water quality testing devices for measuring the pH,
free and combined chlorine concentration, or bromine, (or concentration of
other approved disinfectant), and cyanuric acid if stabilized chlorine is
used.
(2) Water quality testing
devices shall use environmental protection agency (EPA) approved
methods.
(3) Water quality testing
devices for measuring free and total chlorine or bromine shall use
diethyl-P-phenylene diamine (DPD) as the reagent.
(4)Feeders for pH adjustments and automated
controllers shall be required on all aquatic venues within two years of the
effective date of these regulations.
(5) All aquatic venues using a manual
disinfectant feed system that does not have an automated controller shall be
tested before the venue opens for the day and every four hours while open to
the public.
B. The total available bromine in aquatic venues shall not exceed 8ppm.
C. Cyanuric acid shall not be used in indoor aquatic facilities.
D. Swim-up bars are considered an increased risk aquatic venue and shall install a secondary disinfection system.
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