What is TDS?
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Chlorine reactivity is limited to particular chemical sites, mainly amines (nitrogen), reduced sulfur (as in cysteine, methionine, glutathione amino acids), aldehydes and ketones (often producing chloroform), and some aromatic compounds (phenols). So for some compounds there is complete oxidation as with ammonia that becomes nitrogen gas and water or urea that slowly becomes carbon dioxide, nitrogen gas and water, but for many organic compounds there is only partial oxidation or just chlorine substitution and such soluble compounds remain in the water. Organics that are not very soluble will generally get caught in the filter such as suntan lotion and some body oils.
Love this thread. Wish I had read it before the guy at the pool store started trying to tell me that adding lots of liquid bleach would result in very high TDS levels... like it mattered at all.
Not only does TDS not matter, but bleach does not raise TDS significantly more than any other form of chlorine does. It does raise TDS just a tiny bit more, but not in any way that would make a difference even if high TDS did matter.
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OP = Original Poster. It's the person who started the thread. In this case, the OP is Jenna. Since this thread was split from the original thread, you need to go to the original thread to determine the OP: http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/72096-Green-pool-High-TDS-Told-to-Drain