HELP with Green/Brown Water

[PoolDoc]

CYA level is 10, so chlorine might be irritating!

If it's really 10, it will probably be OK. But I don't know how you'd know that: no testkits measure that low.

[poolrookie]

I guess i meant my CYA is 10 and my Alkalinity (says with stabilizer correction is 27) This is from my print out from the water test i received tuesday evening. Chlorine still above 10 this morning, that means it's been that way for almost 48 hours. ph is still reading a little high, but that could be do to the chlorine high levels right? Should have a good kit by tomorrow hopefully! will help tremendously.

[poolrookie]

Had a good time in the pool today, about 100 degreens. Lighter shade of green, still can just barely see the bottom step of the ladder. Chlorine level still 10+ and PH is 7.6
Put stabilizer in sock in skimmer to start bringing it up some. Hoping another couple of days it will start getting more towards blue than green!

[PoolDoc]

I'm still skeptical about that CYA reading -- with a CYA of 10 ppm, chlorine added in the AM would be gone in the PM if it was a sunny day. But, I'm not sure I've followed the sequence of your chlorine additions.

[poolrookie]

I'm still skeptical about that CYA reading -- with a CYA of 10 ppm, chlorine added in the AM would be gone in the PM if it was a sunny day. But, I'm not sure I've followed the sequence of your chlorine additions.

Have had trichlor tabs in skimmer for the last 3 days and one in the floater. Added 3 gallons of bleach 2 days ago, chlorine went way up and has stayed that way for 3 days now. Still 10+. Nice rainy day today, i'm sure that should help..hahaha...

[poolrookie]

my water's chlorine is still around 10, but it is clear and light green! I seen on another thread, that you guys said you could get it clear if they could get it to the clear and green stage for about 100 bucks in chemicals and following instructions. What would i need, would love to try? we have until usually september to swim, so if their is a chance with all that happened, to still have clear BLUE water, i can try!!

[PoolDoc]

In YOUR case, you just need to hold your chlorine levels, and keep filtering. You will probably get there, but it will take P.O.P.

And you need a K2006 or 2006C so you can find out what's actually happening in your pool.

[poolrookie]

Thanks, will let it run and backwash and vacuum in the morning! Kit is on the way, hopefully tomorrow, unless it's fedex, they never deliver on time.

[poolrookie]

Got up to blue water this morning, patience is a wonderful thing! Had some brown stuff on a couple spots on the ground (dust/silt/or whatever it is) try to vacuum these spots and it came right back through the sand filter, i thought the sand was supposed to collect this stuff....that is ridiculous...so all it did was mix it up and the pools pretty blue cloudy water, back to more of that dirty color... i guess blue and dirt make very light green...

should i vacuum this stuff out to waste?? after it settles again.. i would lose so much water though and have to add more of creek or well water, probably not a good thing.. hope my kit comes today so i can test the creek water to know if we can add it safely...

[PoolDoc]

Once you get your kit, check the pool water and the creek water.

But, what may work well for you is to add creek water SLOWLY via the skimmer, but with a couple of chlorine tabs in the skimmer. The combination of chlorine plus filtering may filter out most of the metals before it makes it to your pool.