Quote Originally Posted by 12ofus View Post
We have been backwashing whenever the water coming back into the pool isn't as forceful.
That's reasonable.

But there's no 'quick' way to clean up dead algae in a typical AG pool, because their filters are too small. They manage OK so long nothing is wrong, but not so well for clean up. Where you have 2 seasons worth of swamp, I'd allow 2 weeks for clean up.