NAC444.1956. Water slides: Exit into splash pool.

If bathers exit the flume of a water slide into a splash pool:

     1. The flume must be:

     (a) Horizontal; and

     (b) Perpendicular to the wall of the pool at the point of exit,

Ê for a distance of not less than 10 feet (3.04 meters) from that point.

     2. The flume exit must be flush with the vertical wall of the pool at the point of exit and not more than 2 inches (5.08 centimeters) above, nor less than 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) below, the normal operating level of the pool.

     3. The distance between:

     (a) The side wall of the pool and that portion of the flume exit nearest the wall must be not less than 5 feet (1.52 meters) at the point of exit.

     (b) The centerline of the flume and the centerline of any adjacent flume must be not less than 6 feet (1.82 meters) at the point of exit.

     (c) The point of exit and the side of the pool opposite bathers as they exit, excluding any steps, must be not less than:

          (1) Twenty feet (6.08 meters), if the flume ends above or below the normal operating level; and

          (2) Thirty feet (9.12 meters) if the flume ends at the normal operating level.

     4. The slide may not be used if the main drain of the pool is not clearly visible from the deck with the flume water turned off.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 11-1-88)