Safe swimming with elevated chlorine

[waterbear]

Waterbear was pinned down in his post "Smell chlorine w/ 0 cc?" to say go ahead and have 20 kids swim with a cl level up around 22 ppm. Again in your response "Best FC levels to swim?" “If you must swim in the higher FC levels, be sure to wear older bathing suits as they may fade.” ------ My response is ---- Are these responsible answers to people who accept the answers as “gospel”?!

Exactly how was I 'Pinned Down"? If you reread through the thread you will see that I said it depends on the CYA level. As far as what is acceptable...Here in the state of Florida a commercial pool can be open when the FC is 10 ppm or less. This is also in the new edition of the CPO handbook. This is a big change from a short while ago when the FC had to be 3 ppm or less! Commercial pools are also shut down when the CYA reaches 100 ppm but ask most pool stores and chlorine manufacturers if you can swim in a pool with more than 100 ppm CYA and they will say yes! If the CYA levels are high you NEED higher FC levels to have enough active sanitizer in the water.

I told Madty not to swim if he/she was still shocking the pool and there was algae present. Also when he/she said his CYA was 28 I said to wait for a good sunny day to burn off some of the chlorine! This poster seemed determined to let the kids swim while still fighting algae in the pool after I said not to.
If you are going to use my name please get your facts straight!