Standard Pool Structural Plan is the primary plan used for construction of all pools.The standard plan includes standard pool wall details designed for non-expansive, moderately expansive or highly expansive soil, a surcharge detail for pools located adjacent to residential building structures such as single family dwellings or garages.
The standard plan also includes typical details for spas, skimmers and light niches as well typical raised bond beams. Copyright 2017, Pool Engineering, Inc. Drawings andor pictures may not be copied, reproduced or otherwise used without the express written consent of Pool Engineering, Inc. ![]() Swimming Pool Section Detail Series Of PWTAGIt is the fourth in a series of PWTAG Technical Notes dealing with the current pandemic: TN43 dealt with temporary pool closure; TN44 with coronavirus disinfection; TN45 with the immediate steps in reopening. Swimming Pool Section Detail Download Print VersionView All Technical Notes Subject: Swimming pool technical operation after Covid-19 shutdown Date: June 2020 Download Print Version: Technical Note 46 PDF. This note deals with the ongoing challenge of managing a swimming pool during a subsiding pandemic. It provides a framework of good practice, recommendations and alerts to be adapted by pool managers to the specific requirements of their swimming pool. How managers should deal safely with users, in terms of distancing etc throughout the building and pool, is to be found on the websites of the Department of Digital, Culture, Media Sport ( DCMS ) and Swim England ( Return to Pools Guidance ). Domestic pools used by household families are not covered here; they have different types of Covid-19 risks associated with their use. Risk assessment Each pool manager or person in overall charge of health and safety must ensure there is a Covid-19 risk assessment in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and associated legislation. They should then make sure that the risk assessment recommendations are developed and implemented to safeguard the health and safety of staff, users and visitors. Coronavirus is likely to be with us for some time, so the risk assessment will need to be reviewed regularly, in response to changes. Section 3 covers extra considerations for risk assessing pools using cyanuric acid or chlorinated isocyanurates.) 2. Management of the technical pool operation Managers should adapt their Pool Technical Operational Procedures (PTOP) to the changes in swimming pool water requirements (signed off by a senior manager). Changes should be recorded, including the date and the person making them. Staff should be trained to ensure they understand the changes to the PTOP, Emergency Action Plan and Pool Safety Operating Procedures and the reasons why they are important. New requirements from PWTAG and other relevant authorities should be followed. Primary disinfection With adequately disinfected pool water, the main risk from Covid-19 is through airborne respiratory transmission from a person carrying this virus to others within a critical vicinity not from waterborne transmission. Swimming Pool Section Detail Free Chlorine AndThe available evidence shows that the physical effect of the pool water and an appropriate relationship between free chlorine and pH value should inactivate the virus within 15-30 seconds. The dilution of virus in the pool water volume will also reduce the risk of exposure and transmission. There is more on the scientific background to this in section 12. If the pool cannot realistically achieve a pH below 7.4, the minimum free chlorine residual (from hypochlorite or chlorine gas) may have to be as high as 2.7mgl as long as the pandemic continues. PWTAG recommends testing before bathing starts and every two hours after that. Results should be recorded and initialled, and senior staff immediately notified if they are not within the specified range. Combined chlorine concentrations should be maintained at less than half the free, never more than 1.0mgl and as low as possible. NOTE: Cyanuric acid and chlorinated isocyanurates Cyanuric acid is known to reduce the disinfectant efficacy of free chlorine, significantly increasing the contact time needed to kill a range of pathogens (eg adenovirus, hepatitis A virus and the protozoan Cryptosporidium). It is therefore reasonable to assume that this is also the case for Covid-19 virus. Such reduction in efficacy is likely to provide the potential for virus survival and thus cross infection via the pool water. PWTAGs recommendation during this pandemic is that pools using cyanuric acid or chlorinated isocyanurates including outdoor pools should maintain cyanuric acid levels below 100mgl and minimum free chlorine of 5mgl. This may mean dumping and diluting pool water more than usual. It is important that the risk assessment (involving the manufacturers) takes account of the use of chlorinated isocyanurates during this pandemic. Secondary disinfection (UV and ozone) The recommended free chlorine levels and pH values (in the tables above) are required whether secondary disinfection is used or not, as it is the amount of residual disinfectant present in the pool water that is crucial to deactivating the virus in the pool water. Circulation and hydraulics In order to get good dilution of any released virus particles and to ensure the distribution of free chlorine such that the risk of infection is minimised, it is important to maintain the circulation of the pool water at 100.
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