will cya hurt the lawn?

[photo2u]

Hello friends,

I am about to dump some of my water to lower my 80 ppm cya level. I was wondering if I could use the water from my pool to irrigate my Saint Agustin lawn. I live in S. Cal and we are currently experiencing a drought. My FC level is at 2 ppm. PH is at 7.6

Please advice,
George

 

[Richard320]

Mine seems none the worse for several soakings. And get this - my CYA is now down to 90.

I hope you let the chlorine run low intentionally just for this pumpout/lawn watering, because that's waaaaaay too low to maintain with CYA, well, anywhere.

 

[chem geek]

Soil bacteria (those that survive the chlorine onslaught, so migrate in later) will love the CYA "food" you give to them and will break it down to ammonia giving your lawn an extra nitrogen (fertilizer) boost though the quantity is rather low.

 

[photo2u]

Mine seems none the worse for several soakings. And get this - my CYA is now down to 90.

I hope you let the chlorine run low intentionally just for this pumpout/lawn watering, because that's waaaaaay too low to maintain with CYA, well, anywhere.

Yes! that is correct. my intention was to lower the FC so that the water there will be less FC for the lawn.

Thanks,

George

 

[photo2u]

Soil bacteria (those that survive the chlorine onslaught, so migrate in later) will love the CYA "food" you give to them and will break it down to ammonia giving your lawn an extra nitrogen (fertilizer) boost though the quantity is rather low.

Thanks for the tip! I will start dumping asap.

Thanks,