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    Olympic Pool

    So, serious question though. How do you chlorinate a 500,000 gallon pool? Keeping up with a 2ppm drop every day is 10 gallons of bleach a day. Bringing it up to shock level will be 50 gallons and then whatever it takes to maintain 10 ppm FC.
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    SURVEY - Liquid FC Dosing

    1. Which liquid chlorine dosing system do you use? Sterner 2. Does your system respond to a sensor, or do you dial it in based on your drop-based testing? dialed in based on testing. 3. What is your current pump run time? 11 hrs 4. What is the run time of your liquid chlorine dozers? Same...
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    Pool Chemistry Graduate School

    Thanks, everyone. I'll order some borate test strips to see if borates are a possibility. I may be wrong on the pool volume. I'll double check with my next chlorine add. The fountain runs with the pump so about 10 hrs a day. The way it is plumbed, I can only turn it on or off. I'll look...
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    Pool Chemistry Graduate School

    Everyone, First thanks for all the help. This site has been a huge help in getting my pool back under control. When I took over the pool from our maintenance guy, I couldn't understand why he kept the chlorine so high (it literally created a yellow precipitate in my 5 in 1 test kit). Once I...