Animal Poo and How Long to Wait

[SoCalBoo]

Well, I dumped in enough bleach to jack up the FC to 20. Tested 3 hours later (pump running whole time, navigator on, turned SWG off), and FC is still 20, and no CC whatsoever.

The poo disentegrated quickly when my wife tried to get it out (I was still at work). Turned into dust. vaccuum has cleaned entire pool. most of the stains left by the poo have dissappeared.

I'll test in the morning and see what the FC and CC look like. Thanks for your help

[waterbear]

keep your vacumn and hose submerged in the pool while you shock. They need to be sanitized also! (rinse them out with a hose first to make sure there is not any residue inside) I hope you vacumned to waste and not to the filter!

[SoCalBoo]

duly noted waterbear. the navi and hose are in the pool and submerged, and will stay there. I had planned to do so anyways, but thanks for the reminder. brush is also in the pool

vacuum to waste...it is likely moot anyways as I suspect that most if not all was already filtered through main drain and/or skimmer before I got home. wife swept it down to main drain (actually, disintegrated when she tried) and needed to run pump to get water circulating (use SWG shock until I could get home with bleach hours later). regardless, I don't have a direct waste connection. my plumbing goes suction, pump, DE filter. no way to run the pool with out suction going straight to filter. as I told a judge in court the other day (yeah, I'm a darn attorney) - the facts are what they are (but easy to say then, when the facts were in my favor ).

my wife has already accepted that the swim party is likely to become a slip and slide party instead. life goes on. safety first. even if cc stays at 0, I've still got a chlorine level at 18ppm. I guess I'll cross that 'safety' bridge if and when I need to.

riddle me this batman - if raccoon poo disintegrates, goes into filter, and pool is shocked to appropriate level and holds overnight, with no measured CC at either nightime or next morning, when is one to presume that pathogens/nasty organics/etc are negated/zapped/killed? sounds like waterbear says 24 hours.

The raccoon timeline:

8/11/06
5a - raccoons playing and pooing (water 5fc, 0cc...has been for awhile)
noon - pump goes on with SWG going
1p - wife notices poop, brushes, disintegrates, hits shock button on SWG
5p - bleach added, fc up to 18, no cc
8p - sundown, test pool, still at 18fc, no cc

thanks again for your help. I enjoy learning what to (and not) do. Great site. Sleep well.

[SoCalBoo]

whoops, fc at 20. my bad. late. not enough sierra nevada.

[waterbear]

CDC guidelines for loose poop (since it disintegraged I think it applies) is 8 hours at 20 ppm FC with filter running then change filter media if you can't backwash.

[RavenNS]

Hi, just looking for an update on if your FC stayed high all night.
( sorry about my incorrect suggestion, glad the pool gods knew the right thing to do... learning everyday here)


Off Topic:
Hope your pool party can go on as planed...
Did you remind your guests to bring float toys & PFDs for their kids?
I had a pool party for my kids recently, mostly ages two through four, and although I suggested on the invitation that they bring their favorite floatation devices, not one family brought anything... & none of the kids could swim ( & a bunch of the parents couldn't too)
Good thing I had stocked up on a bunch of types of them... every one of our floatation devices was in use ( a good bakers dozen at least & proabably could have used another three)

[SoCalBoo]

Yeah, FC stayed up all night. CC still 0. Backwashed DE filter 7a this morning.