Hazy Water and wild fire fallout (Southern Ontario)

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JaySee

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Hi TFPers,

Wondering if any other folks in the Southern Ontario region are experiencing unusually cloudy water this opening?

I've got my pool at SLAM+ levels, passed OCLT, TA and PH are within preferred range (70 & 7.5), CYA upped to 30ish, pump running 24/7-- but there's a constant milky haze in my pool where i can't see below 5 feet. Been robot vacuuming my pool 2-3x daily, and the robot filter just has the usual sediment and an occasional worm. Removed the ladder, pulled the light out of nook. No green to be found. Using a filter sock in my skimmer basket and it's coming out reasonably clean.

I'm experiencing minimal FC loss through the day since the sky is so overcast, with occasional torrential rainpour. Could this be micro particles of fallout made worse with random the rain showers? I'm about to go out and buy some chitosan-based clarifier for the first time, as nothing else is adding up.
 
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How did you make out with this? I'm experiencing similar in New York. I do notice my skimmer socks getting grayish.
I also noticed after the first time I added 1 gallon of 12.5% it seemed to clear up but it was cloudy again after kids went swimming. It's been a couple weeks now amd it's still hazy not nearly as bad as the first instance. We couldn't see the vacuum at the bottom of the deep end.
JaySee said:
Hi TFPers,

Wondering if any other folks in the Southern Ontario region are experiencing unusually cloudy water this opening?

I've got my pool at SLAM+ levels, passed OCLT, TA and PH are within preferred range (70 & 7.5), CYA upped to 30ish, pump running 24/7-- but there's a constant milky haze in my pool where i can't see below 5 feet. Been robot vacuuming my pool 2-3x daily, and the robot filter just has the usual sediment and an occasional worm. Removed the ladder, pulled the light out of nook. No green to be found. Using a filter sock in my skimmer basket and it's coming out reasonably clean.

I'm experiencing minimal FC loss through the day since the sky is so overcast, with occasional torrential rainpour. Could this be micro particles of fallout made worse with random the rain showers? I'm about to go out and buy some chitosan-based clarifier for the first time, as nothing else is adding up.
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How did you make out with this? I'm experiencing similar in New York. I do notice my skimmer socks getting grayish.
I also noticed after the first time I added 1 gallon of 12.5% it seemed to clear up but it was cloudy again after kids went swimming. It's been a couple weeks now amd it's still hazy not nearly as bad as the first instance. We couldn't see the vacuum at the bottom of the deep end.
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Hi, I finally got it crystal clear about 4-5 days after my original post. I hedged my bets and assumed the worst: I took the pool to mustard slam levels (FC 18), added chitosan clarifier (first time ever), recirculated for a few hours, and then turned everything off for 10 hours to let whatever the clarifier clumped up to settle to the bottom. After 10 hours I hand vacuumed the bottom of the pool to waste, backwashed/rinsed, and then let the filter run. The bottom drain was visible the next day, I threw my robot in there for 3x sessions and was crystal clear 2 days later.

My guess that whatever fine particles were that was clouding up the water wasn't getting filtered quickly enough by the sand filter so the clarifier helped out a bit. The mustard slam level was insurance that any sneaky algae was wiped out in the process.

Good luck!
 
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