John and Janet,

Thanks for the advice on this. I'll wait until the Chlorine is down to a workable level prior to doing anything else.

Does a high chlorine level create cloudiness in the water too? I've turned by SWG down to 40% now and the water coming out of the returns is white'r(yeah, made that up...:-) than the water in the pool. You can actually see clouds of it coming out of the returns and moving into the pool. I doubt this is salt, but there still could be some of the bottom being pulled into the main drain. I can't tell as i can't see the bottom...:-)

Kash