high ch

My calcium hardness has gotten very high (~1,200) due to my local hard water supply and three summers of evaporation. I don't want to drain and refill due to the current severe drought. Unless I want to deal with high calcium forever, I think I need to get a water softener for my autofill line...

I feel I need to do a partial drain & refill in my salt pool in order to reduce my 750 CH. I am planning to drain about 1/3 of my pool and replace with 170 CH city water. That should give me a new reading of approx 557. Is that worth the cost and effort? My main concern is also my TA level...

I just got a new liner installed about 2 weeks ago and filled the 35,000 gallon pool with well water that is high with iron/ copper, my pool guy also added some Algicide to the pool as it was filling up. I had leftover chlorine pucks (etraBlue) and put them in the feeder thinking it would help...