Hilarious article BASHING salt water pools

[zimm]

I googled, "salt water pools killing vegetation" and this came up:

http://www.carefreeclearwater.com/saltwaterpools.html

My favorite is the headline: Turning Your Pool into a Chlorine and Caustic Chemical Factory!




hahaha.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Interesting read. While they do have a few facts correct in there they gloss over or ignore completely other facts that lead to their conclusions. Typical

 

[Bama Rambler]

Guess what they sell? Or more importantly what they don't sell?

 

[Charlie_R]

Yeah, right. In the first couple of paragraphs it was clear they slanted the story in order to sell their ionizer products.

Marketers. Gotta love them with their half thruths and almost fibs.

Of course, the uneducated general public won't take the time to do their own research and learn until they have problems with their pools and/or people are constantly getting sick after swimming.

Can you say green hair and stains?

 

[davelinde]

all they missed was a theory linking them to global warming...

 

[FamilyGuy]

all they missed was a theory linking them to global warming...

I think that was implied lol

 

[vinper]

wow , wosrse than smoking better tax the s--- out if it it

 

[bob2112]

This may be a good place for the new guy to ask one of his many questions...

I'm building a small (less than 2000 gallons) pool for my dogs and will need to backflush as necessary into my yard. Is there actually any affect to vegetation from pool water? What if it's a pool with a SWG? If there are negative side effects to plants from backflushing pool water, would it help if I backflush during rain showers to dilute the pool water?

Thanks!

 

[Speedo]

I didn't read much of it, but from what I skimmed.. Let's hope none of the ocean water gets in the ground since salt is so terrible!

 

[DorsalSpine]

This may be a good place for the new guy to ask one of his many questions...

I'm building a small (less than 2000 gallons) pool for my dogs and will need to backflush as necessary into my yard. Is there actually any affect to vegetation from pool water? What if it's a pool with a SWG? If there are negative side effects to plants from backflushing pool water, would it help if I backflush during rain showers to dilute the pool water?

Thanks!

I have a DE bump filter. When it's time to change the DE, you bump the handle, open the waste valve and run water out to purge the DE. I run it right out into the yard. I have never had a problem with either the chlorine or the DE. The grass doesn't seem to mind.

 

[zea3]

The salt level in a swg pool is about the same as the salt content of human tears. We have not had any reports from anyone stating plants in the yard have died from the salt content of pool water drained into their yard.