Read through some of the recent well water threads in the Metals section -- I'm moving this post there.

I don't have time this morning to go through this again, but most of the info is in those posts.

Bottom line: it's going to be a pain.

If you want to try it . . . I'll help you use a second smaller pool to 'pretreat' the water for your pool. I want to experiment with that, because right now, I don't have any really good solution for folks like you with Intex pools. If you pursue this option, you'd need the following:

#1 - A smaller Intex pool, like this Intex 12' pool (must have pump / filter)

#2 - A sump pump like this 1/6 HP model.

#3 - Some aluminum sulfate (floc) like this:
http://store.poolcenter.com/nu-clo-a...t-p162127.aspx

What you'd have to do is pre-treat the water in the little pool, floc it, let it settle, and then with the sump pump resting on a block 4 - 8" above the bottom, pump CLEAR water into your pool. Then, you've have to pump the remaining floc out onto the ground, and start again. I *think* this would actually work well, and not be as cumbersome as it sounds, once we got the routine down.

But, till then it would be sort of an experiment. I'd prefer to do it here, but I don't have access to well water like that, currently.

Ben