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    Late summer algae - happens every year

    Can anyone guess what might be happening here? Every summer about early August I start to see cloudiness develop. My pool is 24000 gallons. I pump 60 gallons per minute for 12 hours a day. I keep my chlorine (SWG) at 5ppm or higher. My CYA is 50 ppm, pH is 7.5, CH is 110 ppm, Alk is 70 ppm...
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    alkalinity

    Hello, I have a 24000 gallon salt water vinyl liner pool with a chlorine generator. I just added some baking soda to increase my alkalinity and I am asking myself why. My levels are as follows: salt 3000 ppm pH 7.7 alk 50 ppm free chlorine 3.5 ppm cya < 20 (I will be bringing that up...
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    pH dropping

    I'm trying to help a friend out with his pool. The pool is in a heavily wooded area in southern Oregon. Over the winter and during the spring he really let it go with leaves and needles from the trees settling on the bottom of the pool. And then when the weather got warm it turned really...