Oil Slick in the Pool - what to do?

[KurtV]

Evaporation will also take care of the lightest oils and for what's left you can probably pick it up with sorbent pads like these: http://store.andax.com/index.asp?Pag...RODGROUP&ID=39. That's not an endorsement for those pads or the company that makes or sells them, just an example.

I'd hesitate to use dispersants to break it up; no telling what those would do to your filter medium.

[jsboat]

Thanks, good idea, it seems like that type of pad would work. I really don't want to just throw more chemicals in the water unless it is known to work. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

[KurtV]

I also should have said that a dispersant will only break up the oil and suspend it in the water, it won't get rid of it.