Dorchester County inspects pool safety under the ISPSC and the barrier rules South Carolina enforces. Federal law requires anti-entrapment drain covers on public pools; residential pools are not required to add them but are strongly encouraged to.
Pool safety in Dorchester County runs on the barrier, gate, and alarm rules of the ISPSC South Carolina enforces, plus federal drain-cover law. Where a house wall forms part of the barrier and a door opens to the pool, that door needs an audible alarm meeting UL 2017 unless a safety cover listed to ASTM F1346 protects the pool. The federal Virginia Graeme Baker Act mandates anti-entrapment drain covers on public and semi-public pools; residential owners are urged, though not required, to install them. Public pools also answer to SCDES Regulation 61-51.
A house door to the pool with no alarm and no listed safety cover, or a gate that will not self-latch, is a cited defect that stops the pool from passing inspection.
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