Are SWG's illegal in California?

[beary]

Kind of what I expected. Has there been any problems found to be caused by the salt in pools using SWGs?

beary

[Poolsean]

The pool industry is fighting this action by Santa Clarita, Ca. Unfortunately LA was trying to follow with them. However, there is no basis for this conclusion as salt from a salt pool is minimal in comparison to the other sources of "sodium" being leached into the water system.
It's not the salt being used in Salt Chlorine generator pools, it's the discharge from backwashing that they are concerned with.
At this time, Santa Clarita is the only city that is preventing builders from installing salt chlorine generators on pool. Also banned are water softeners!

[JohnInSoCal]

in my city (Norco) water softeners that put salt back into the sewer system are banned. However I don't think SWG's are banned because many of the new pools have SWG's on them and the inspectors are very picky and wouldn't pass them if it was a problem.

[semenzato]

Uh oh, does this mean that I can no longer put salt in my pasta water? :-)

[SoCalBoo]

What's the conversion on milligrams to ppm? Would 2000 mg/lit encompass all of our pools running in the 2500-3500 range?

[KurtV]

For water 1 mg/liter = 1 ppm.