I figured that KurtV's question wasn't serious. Mandeville is close enough that the date is firmly fixed in everyone's mind. How many trees did you lose, Kurt? ;->

Thanks for the feed back. One suggestion that closely parellels my thinking is to set up filtration that is independent of the existing sand filter. Since that system is really a polishing filter, and not designed to take out large amounts of large things, I'd like to try to set up some coarser filtration.

I'm thinking about either a largish (4000 gph) bilge pump or a 2" gasoline powered rental pump feeding a temporary mesh, coarse sand, or even plate-and-frame filter. Anyone have any experience with, or heard of anyone using, something like that?

As for staining, the house sale disclosure said that the pool needed replastering, so I figure that it will get handled soon anyway. Oh, and I understand that the borax is to increase pH...I figured that by the time I had 50 or so cumulative gallons of bleach in the pool, I'd need some pH adjustment. I hadn't actually run the calculations to see how much would be needed, though.

Either way, when the time comes, if anyone's interested I can post progress reports.