CYA, Cl and SE Texas Rainfall!!!

[pragmatic]

2015 has brought Bookoo’s of rain to SE Texas. Unfortunately it seems like much more on the way with a tropical storm looming in the Gulf.
We’ve had so much water this year that I’m back to using my tab chlorine feeder at full-blast (I let me CYA drop to 30PPM) Normally 1 bucket of tabs are good for the year, but I’ll break into another this year. As much as we bash the tabs (for obvious reasons), they sure make it a bit more care-free. I may even go to cal-hypo to bring my levels back up.

FYI-Our last three-year-avg has been about 55inches, but our year-to-date 2015 is already at 40inches!!

 

[jblizzle]

We only bash trichlor tablets when they are used blindly. You know what you are doing and understand their effects, so they very well are prefect for your current climate.

 

[rphpool]

2015 has brought Bookoo’s of rain to SE Texas. Unfortunately it seems like much more on the way with a tropical storm looming in the Gulf.
We’ve had so much water this year that I’m back to using my tab chlorine feeder at full-blast (I let me CYA drop to 30PPM) Normally 1 bucket of tabs are good for the year, but I’ll break into another this year. As much as we bash the tabs (for obvious reasons), they sure make it a bit more care-free. I may even go to cal-hypo to bring my levels back up.

FYI-Our last three-year-avg has been about 55inches, but our year-to-date 2015 is already at 40inches!!

I had to do the same thing. After that 10" rain overnight on Memorial Day my CYA went to "0" per pool store and I confirmed. I have been using pucks to get some CYA and control the dilution. Looks like we are going to get a frog strangler Tuesday though.

 

[jblizzle]

10" of rain should not make your CYA drop to 0ppm ... for that to happen you would have had to get 100% water replacement. 10" should have only lowered the CYA by about 25% ... assuming the pool did not fill with soil and bacteria and broke all the CYA down somehow.

 

[rphpool]

Yes that is exactly what I thought when pool store said zero. Tested with tf100 and confirmed less then 10.