Wichita’s splash pads are inspected routinely by the city’s Environmental Health department and facility operators are expected to adhere to the water quality standards specified in the municipal code. But that level of oversight is uncommon throughout the rest of Sedgwick County and much of the state, where facilities operate in something of a water feature Wild West. … in Kansas, there are no statewide regulations for the construction, operation, filtration, disinfection or inspection of recreational water features, including pools, water parks and splash pads. And public information about the safety of any individual splash pad in the Wichita area is murky at best. “Outside of Wichita, there aren’t inspections,” Sedgwick County Health Department Director Adrienne Byrne said. “We don’t have Environmental Health with the county health department, and so cannot provide inspections unless there’s an issue like there was with Tanganyika.”
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
