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Public Beaches in Clinton County When you go swimming at the beach, the Clinton County Health Department strives to ensure your and your loved ones’ safety. The Clinton County Health Department work with our partners who own or operate public beach facilities by insuring the each facility has an approved bathing safety plan, adequate bather supervision, the required first aid equipment, the proper operation and maintenance of equipment, etc.
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The purpose of the New York State bathing
codes are to substantially reduce the risk of drowning, near drowning,
disease, or injury for the public using the bathing facility and to
substantially reduce the liability of permitted facility owners. You have a responsibility to your family
and yourself for bathing beach safety. Clinton County Health
Department highly recommends that you and your family swim at permitted
municipal or temporary residence beaches for your family’s safety. These
beaches have had their safety plans reviewed, collect beach water samples at
least twice a month when the beach is open, and are inspected at least once
a year. Clinton County beaches periodically have
problems with blue green algae in Lake Champlain and swimmer’s itch in Lake
Champlain and other smaller bodies of water. Illnesses can evolve the
following symptoms or diseases:
Swimmer’s Ear |
Parents should not trust a lifeguard to be
continuously watching their child because the lifeguard’s responsibility is
track all the bathers in the water. This can be a big problem when there are
many bathers for the lifeguard to track.
Click here for this external link to NYSDOH’s "Taking Steps to
Prevent Drowning". |
Note:
These are external web links.