Hey Everyone. New pool owner here(still under construction). I’m having an issue with cleaning up the water. When the liner was installed, I filled the pool to 1’ in the shallow end. This water came straight from my well. I think around 6,000 gallons.
I didn’t want to use my well water because of the issues with high iron but I didn’t have much of a choice. I didn’t want to run all this water through my water softener. When it was time to fill the rest of the pool, I had the local Fire Department bring clean water. The water remained brown until the pool company came to do the initial start up. They added their chemicals and the next day the water was cleared up but their was a ton of brown sediment on the bottom.
I started to vacuum to waste but I’m only able to get about 5 minutes before the water level drops below the skimmer. And while I’m vacuuming, a lot of the sediment got stirred up and made the water all dirty again and I can’t see the bottom anymore
I added a flocculant to try to get everything to drop to the bottom again but that doesn’t seem to be working. I’m not even sure if this is rust from the iron or just dirt that was pulled up from the well. Or maybe both?
I’m at a loss and at the end of my sanity.? Hope someone can help.
Thanks
Pool is 15,000 gallons
Salt water
I didn’t want to use my well water because of the issues with high iron but I didn’t have much of a choice. I didn’t want to run all this water through my water softener. When it was time to fill the rest of the pool, I had the local Fire Department bring clean water. The water remained brown until the pool company came to do the initial start up. They added their chemicals and the next day the water was cleared up but their was a ton of brown sediment on the bottom.
I started to vacuum to waste but I’m only able to get about 5 minutes before the water level drops below the skimmer. And while I’m vacuuming, a lot of the sediment got stirred up and made the water all dirty again and I can’t see the bottom anymore
I added a flocculant to try to get everything to drop to the bottom again but that doesn’t seem to be working. I’m not even sure if this is rust from the iron or just dirt that was pulled up from the well. Or maybe both?
I’m at a loss and at the end of my sanity.? Hope someone can help.
Thanks
Pool is 15,000 gallons
Salt water
While wells typically have iron content, that looks like a bunch of ground sediment to me. Once you added chlorine, it would react with that much iron and you'd start to see staining as well. In any case, well water is still in there so it won't hurt to treat for both. Avoid future floc for now though. Make sure to vacuum to waste as much as you can to avoid getting the floc in your filter. It will take time. You can try adding some towels or other absorbent material to the skimmer as well. It may help catch suspended materials.
