Our sprinkler system was redone around the pool this week and DH and I carted many, many wheelbarrow-fulls of "enriched" topsoil to various areas around the yard. It was actually about 4 cubic yards or so, but who's counting when your back is breaking .

Any-hoo...pool had a very light gray haze early in the week that I couldn't seem to clear. It was so light that I even thought maybe I was imagining it, as the weather is now cooler and the sun's rays are hitting the pool differently. But still, it just wasn't crystal clear.

We cleaned the cartridge filter about 10 days ago, on the Saturday before the sprinkler guys started work.

As DH and I were working this weekend. DH threw some rocks up into the landscape bed that surrounds about 3/4 of the pool, only they weren't rocks after all and they landed in the pool instead . Those rocks were dirt clumps. That only added to the debris getting blown into the pool from our "enriched" topsoil, as it was a very windy day.

Pool turned brown, as the clumps dissolved when I tried to remove them. Filter has been running 24/7 ever since and I've taken the pool to shock level. Skimmer socks have been changed 2x/day and are finally back to what looks like normal debris (socks were filled with black debris after this fiasco). Polaris has been runnning with regular bag cleaning.

Then we had rain. The pool's still hazy brown with sediment that settles on the steps. Seems like it's getting less, but should it really take this long to clear my pool?

After things dry out a bit more, I'm thinking of rechecking the filter just to be sure we didn't mis-assemble it, as it was the first time we've cleaned it, but we were pretty careful about how we did it. Filter manual states that one can add alum floc to help remove very fine dirt particles that aren't getting caught by the filter. I'm hesitant to do this without some advice from the forum.

Any advice and thoughts are appreciated.

Pool numbers this AM:
FC 18.5
CC 0
pH 7.8 (VERY resistant to lowering since cooler temps)
TA 60 ( 2nd time in 10 days it's dropped to 60 after being stable at 80 all summer)
CH 230
CYA 50
Salt 3800
SWCG currently off due to shocking. Recently reduced pump time to 10 hours and SWCG setting to 35% when cooler weather arrived.