I was tired tonight and not thinking straight---put in too much CYA. I immediatley realized my mistake when I went to write the numbers down and took the sock out of the pool. Knew I needed to halve the amount (not fun when wet--a complete freakin' mess!) Put the sock back in the pool. Now, what in the heck do I do with the leftover WET CYA??? I looked at the MSDS sheet and it really did not help. It is about 1.5-2# dry CYA that is wet and soggy.
HELLLPPPPP!
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Let's wait for chemgeek to reply!
But off the top of my head, I'd say, bury it in some weedpatch corner of your yard and let it biodegrade into ammonia. You'll end up with some thriving bushy weeds!
But off the top of my head, I'd say, bury it in some weedpatch corner of your yard and let it biodegrade into ammonia. You'll end up with some thriving bushy weeds!
I called the non-emergency fire department and they had no idea. The lieutenant told me to put it up somewhere and cover it and call the solid waste district tomorrow! MSDS sheet online said NOT to cover it if wet. We have hazardous waste drop off in our county, but it was until (sigh) 4pm TODAY! Chemgeek, I hope you are online soon!
If you leave it outside somewhere where it can dry off you should be able to rescue most of it. But you don't want the run off going into the ground. Try putting it in a basin or bucket but held up off the bottom so it can dry out.
If it doesn't dry out or you want to get rid of it, then the following is typical of most MSDS for Cyanuric Acid:
You can always take it to your local garbage dump that has a hazardous waste facility and tell them what it is. They may just have you dump it with regular landfill, but that's up to them and they'll know the local regs (and can look it up, if necessary). It's toxic in concentrated form, but soil bacterial will love it and use it as a food source producing ammonia (actually ammonium ion which is more prevalent at lower pH) that will be taken up by plants, but only if this CYA gets well diluted.
Our county solid waste district has told me I can keep it in the garage, uncovered or covered, until I can take it to the next hazardous waste disposal (on Saturday). Thanks for all your advice!