New Pool/new House Well Water

[Poconos]

Lisa,
Ben questioned if it turned brown after adding bleach. If it was brown from the fill, before bleach, like mine was originally when I filled from a well, it could be just silt and/or mud you stirred up by drawing so much from the well. Which was it?
Al

[li34436]

Well, The pool was crystal clear except for iron on the bootom of the pool. My husband added TOO much chlorine by accident. He put in 5g of liquid chlorine. He thought they were 1g containers. I went to the pool store and got boric acid put in 1/2g. I just did that yesterday. It still same color.Lime Green. I have vac the pool x2. It also rained all day yesturday.

Do you think I should add more boric acid? You can see some clear spots but not many.

Thank you,

Lisa

[gwrace1]

I just completed a new 26K gallon pool install and filled it with iron rich well water. However I took the following steps to remove/prevent metal contamination.

1. I put a whole house 2 micron filter ahead of the water softener.
2. Used the water softener to fill the pool. It took many pounds of salt and regeneration cycles to complete. I used softener salt that contained an Iron Out additive (Citric Acid)
3. During the 5 days that the pool was filling I added metal out and Polyquat 60%
4. I used a Pentair 26" sand filter loaded with Zeolite media and let the pump circulate several days before switching on the SWG, I did not shock the pool.
5. I switched on the SWG and let it bring the FC levels up to 3.5PPM with 40PPM stabilizer
6. Now that I have the salt levels where I want them all fill water comes straight from the well, but I run it though the same 2 micron whole house filter cartridge before it gets to the pool.
The water has been crystal clear since startup with no staining.

As a side note...we have so much iron in the water that I have to change out the filter cartridge monthly. When it is removed it is orange/red in color and about 3 times it's original weight. Well water can be used if you take precautions before filling.