Quote Originally Posted by Lenny View Post
Doesn't it stain the hell out of the street?

I tried that once and I even hosed it down while it was still wet but it made bad stains. And it took a while to wear off too.
This is my concern also. I had an algae bloom over the warm late-winter/early-spring and I'm on my 3rd backwash through the cleanup effort. I usually backwash into the street when it is raining to minimize the leftover DE, but this time I've had no choice and had to backwash on the dry pavement so much of the downstream street gutters are littered with DE. The neighbors haven't complained but I think if I was them I wouldn't be happy.

I'm going to try and start backwashing into the lawn. My only concern is that the clorine will harm or kill the organics in the lawn. My thinking is to backwash when that level is down or hit the pool with some chlor neutralizer first.

Any thoughts, comments or experiences would be appreciated.