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I add a lot of chemicals to my pool every year, why do I do this anyway? Why can I just swim? I mean, the water looks fine when I take the tarp off every year.
There's a simple answer for that.
As you should know, pH is how Acidic or Basic a substance is. A neutral substance has a pH of 7 (6-8.5 is an appoximate reccommendation on good swimming pool pH). Let the pH get too low or high and it will start irritating your skin or eyes. You can easily test your pH by buying Multi-Test strips from Wal-Mart in the pool supply aisle.
When using the Quick Set pool every day, does it make a difference in water quality if I put the cover back on every night or if I leave it off? Should I just save the cover for when we don't use the pool for a few days? We do have trees nearby, though the pool is as far away as possible in our small yard and does get some debris from the trees.
Chemically it's better to leave the cover off. This way the chloramines that form when chlorine acts against organics can dissipate into the air. Putting the cover on will trap these and actually halt the action of chlorine in the water.
If you get a lot of debris then you can put the cover on to keep it out, but make sure you uncover the pool for a couple hours a day if it's a solid cover. This will give the water a chance to clarify and the chloramines to burn off.
Get to know your H2O
Water water everywhere but what is fit to drink?
Come on in the water's fine! (Would be good if using a visual showing a person in an obviously nasty pool trying to entice someone in).
Look before you leap.
If the product uses a numbers chart for the user then
There is safety in numbers
We have a 12-13K in ground pool. I have a sand filter and Lord knows the last time the sand has been changed.
On sunday I took water samples to the chem store- they said my levels were all good and no phospates. The water was a bit green, not horribly so but it was awful cloudy.
Today- the pool is GREEN. I have done everything. Shocked, I regularly use tablets. Clarified. Added phos free.
The water keeps coming out ok but it looks like crap.
I haven't tested today because the previous days it has been fine and still looked like crap.
We looked into the filter and the sand is awful. Im wondering if that can affect my water?
The thing is the chlorine levels show fine both on my own kit and when i take the water and have it tested??????
I would think its a chlorine problem as well.
some sand medias are much better than others...they last longer,filter out smaller particles,even remove harmful chemicals. heres a link with a comparison of different types of sand media and links: http://www.swimming-pool-information.com /sand-swimming-pool-filters.html
or can you only order them off the internet? because i need to test my local river's water quality but im having a hard time finding any water quality testing kits in nay stores (except the pH ones in the pool shops).
PLEASE HELP!!!!
americanchemistry.com : Chlorine Chemistry: essentiallt;subgt;2lt;/sub ...
Contribute to your summer fun? Whether or not the subject of chemistry “floats your boat,” chlorine chemistry can help provide a healthy swimming pool in which to float, well…your yellow ducky tube. Just as chlorine chemistry contributes to public health through its role in providing clean drinking water , it also plays an essential role in pool and spa disinfection.
Most people know that chlorine disinfectants are added to pool water to destroy a wide assortment of germs that can make swimmers sick. Chlorine helps control germs that cause recreational water illnesses, known as “RWIs,” including diarrhea, swimmer’s ear and skin infections.
Chlorine is a bit of a misunderstood player on the pool scene, however. Although it is appropriately associated with a healthy swimming experience, chlorine also has an undeserved reputation for causing occasional red eyes and irritated skin. While the irritation noticed by swimmers is very real, chlorine itself is usually not the culprit—it is part of the solution. A brief introduction to chlorine pool chemistry will dispel this poolside myth, and enhance your ability to evaluate your swimming pool environment.
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 The best available science indicates that even with significant upstream improvements to benefit water quality, and even with improvements in the lake basin itself to control stormwater runoff, we will still be plagued into perpetuity with fecal coliform, phosphorous/nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and other water quality issues.
This means there will never be swimming, extremely limited boating. Noxious weeds like Purple Loosestrife and Eurasian Milfoil. Algae blooms. Nutria to manage. Signs around the lake telling people not to go near or touch the water. In essence- an unattractive, unappealing, and unsafe freshwater stagnant pool. A dammed river. That’s not a lake. And certainly not what anyway envisioned for the Gateway to the Capitol Campus.
Given this information, an unhealthy and diseased dammed up river, or estuary restoration, it becomes more and more difficult to maintain my ‘preference’ for a lake.
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