Tasks

• Enforce Chapter V of the State Sanitary Code: Minimum Standards for Swimming Pools;
• Issue annual permits for all swimming pools (public and semi-public);
• Routinely inspect all swimming pools (public and semi-public);
• Issuing orders, holding hearings, granting variances, and taking water samples as needed;
• Enforce Chapter VII of the State Sanitary Code: Minimum Standard for Bathing Beaches;
• Conduct weekly water quality testing at all public and semi public bathing beaches;
• Monitory test results following weekly water quality testing at all public and semi public bathing beaches;
• Notify Massachusetts Department of Public Health of any exceedances from state standards at any bathing beaches in the Town of Cohasset;
• Close any beach whose bacterial count exceeds maximum state thresholds (prohibit swimming);
• Reviewing plans for new and/or altered bathing beaches.