Quote Originally Posted by Riverpixy View Post
The Alkaline, PH, and Cyanuric Acid were normal
Unfortunately, that tells us nothing. I looked to see what you are using, and it seems to be a strip based reader. Those tend not to be very accurate, and can be wildly inaccurate. Plus "normal" means whatever the techie dude who wrote the software for the reader THOUGHT was normal, but I have no idea what that would be.

Other comments: surface water quality can vary from season to season, and even year to year. There's no guarantee that the water you put into your pool THIS year is much like the water last year. That's one of the things that makes running a big city water utility with surface (river) water so challenging.

Read this page: http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?16946, and then do a bucket test on BOTH your pool water and the river water.

I don't know, but odds are the fastest and best way for you to get a clear pool is to drain and refill, but only AFTER we know what's currently in the river water AND you have a good test kit. The K-2006 is the only kit we know of that's trustworthy. If you want to wait, I was planning to run comparison tests on an AquaCheck TruTest, but not till August. Waterbear may know . . . but I'm guessing you're going to have to a get a Taylor.