Camps and Camping

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Camps and Camping

• Chapter 20

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Day Camps

• Area and facility that provides similar to that
  of a resident camp
• Campers sleep at home
• Provisions are made for
• Water, restrooms
• Rainy-day shelters, first-aid and health areas
• Eating, cooking, refrigeration
• Program supplies
• Buses used to transport campers
• Adequate storage for equipment, food, and supplies

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Group Camps

• Scouts, church groups, school classes
• Special Campsite
• Accommodate from 10-40 persons
• Contain fireplaces for cooking, picnic shelters,
  restrooms, and safe drinking water
• Winterized buildings for winter campers

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Campgrounds

• Traditional - tent camping
• Replaced by motor homes, trailers, and pop-ups
• Public campgrounds, traditional amenities
• water, restrooms, and possibly showers
• Segregation between tents and motor homes
• Natural 3 hook up, 2 hook up, 1 hook up, or
  primitive
• Roads wide enough, often one way
• Parking- hard stand, asphalt, concrete

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Family Camps

• Offer complete meal and living accommodations for
  families and adults
• Campers stay more than one night and often
  several weeks
• Privately developed resorts (vacationlands)
• Offer organized programs and facilities with
  swimming pools, recreation centers, playgrounds,
  courts, horseback riding trails, and marinas

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Waterfronts

• Familiarization acquainting with water
• Instruction programs of teaching
• Recreation unstructured programs
• Competition programs of training and competing
• Various locations
• Parks, resorts, marinas, clubs, hotels,
  residential developments, other rec. areas
• Beaches, floating crib, dock, pond, lake, shore,
  pool must be properly located and insured the
  health and safety of the public

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Natural Waterfronts

• Water characteristics
• Sanitary quality
• Clarity of water
• Surrounding water source
• Water quality (bacterial content)
• Water clarity (visibility test)
• Circulation should be examined

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Natural Waterfronts Checklist

• rate of water flow
• rate of water turnover
• water-level fluctuation
• water constancy
• availability of water
• types of currents and undertow
• outlet for water

• eddies, floods, waves, or wash
• weeds, fungi, mold, or slime
• parasites, fish, animals
• debris, broken glass
• oil slick
• odor, color, tastes

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Bottom Characteristics

• Unobstructed, clear of debris, rock, muck, mulch,
  peat, and mud
• Should consist of gravel, sand, or stable hard
  ground
• Checklist
• Bottom movement
• Amount of holes, debris
• Slope of subsurface
• Condition of soil
• Porosity of bottom
• Average depth and various depths
• Bottom color

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Climate Characteristics

• Checklist
• number of storms and type
• prevailing winds
• amount of ice
• change of air temperature
• amount of precipitation
• fluctuation of temperature
• sun exposure

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Environmental Characteristics

• Consider
• Zoning regulations
• Building codes
• Insurance restrictions
• Health ordinances
• Title covenants

• Checklist
• ownership and riparian rights
• availability of water supply
• zoning and deed restrictions
• local, state, and federal regulations
• adjacent ownerships
• water patrol and a control agency

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Program Characteristics

• Protection
• Fence or controlled access
• Internally segregated
• Storage space
• Checklist
• distance of waterfront from other areas
• access road
• separation of waterfront activities
• area for unity of controls
• space available for adjunct activities

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Access Characteristics

• Must be accessible by transportation available to
  the users
• Vehicular access for emergency and maintenance
  use
• Free of poison ivy, sumac, poison oak, burdock,
  thistle, and other irritating plants

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Area Characteristics

• Waterfront bathing area 50 square feet for each
  user
• Need areas for instruction, recreation, and
  competition
• Instruction areas
• not to exceed 3 feet for beginners
• not to exceed 5 ½ feet for intermediate swimmers
• Camp swimming area 60 feet by 30 feet

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Shore Characteristics

• Free of irregular rocks, stumps, debris, or
  obstruction
• Minimum of 100 feet long for bathing in camp area
• Trees adjacent to waterfront for shade
• Fewer problems with coniferous

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Docks and Floats

• Permanent structures usually set on
• concrete, wood, or steel foundations
• decks made in sections of 10-20 feet
• Docks at least a one-foot air space between the
  deck and water
• Underwater braces/cross beams kept limited for
  safety
• Flotation structures drums, balsa wood, cork,
  rigid polystyrene plastic, or steel tanks

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Waterfront Equipment

• Lifeguard Station
• Ladders
• Log Booms
• Lemmon Lines
• Markers and buoys
• Rescue Craft
• Kick Rails
• Towel Racks