CYA in Trichlor?

[Watermom]

He can run high cl levels to compensate for the high cya (but he'll have to be extremely diligent about keeping the cl level between 8-15 ALL the time) or he can do a partial drain. Either way will work. If it were me, I'd do a partial drain, though.

EDIT -- as soon as I posted, I saw that you had also posted while I was typing. If he doesn't want to drain, it's ok. But, he MUST not let cl drop below 8 ever or he is gonna have big algae problems. Hope this helps.

[docsobeck]

i've had some experience with high CYA before learning the BBB approach. if it were me, i'd do partial drain as well, but water around here is among the cheapest in the midwest, so it wouldn't cost me more than 20 bucks. if i had to have the water trucked in, i would try to ride it out. assuming that the pool gets used a decent amount, the water will slowly go down due to splash out and backwashing. (if he has dogs, the splash out will be significant. obviously i have experience in that area. : )

anyhow, he'll have to keep the FC level pretty high, but on the other hand with all that CYA he won't be losing much to sunlight, so it's not like it will take a TON more chlorine to keep it high. that's the way i would go.