3 days ago we had a downpour and there is a new house build above our...we sit on a slope. We'll apparently they did not have any silt fences up and all of their dirt ran like a river into our pool. It's like chocolate. We let it sit a day didn't settle much. Then we added floc out. Did nothing. Pool clarifier didn't help. I vacuumed it of course I can't see the bottom but that didn't work. We have a cartridge filter nonsand filter so tuned it back on for 24 hours. Still mud. It's such a fine powder of clay you just don't know how to get rid of it. People are telling us just let it settle for a week but do we keep running the salt water chlorinator I don't want to let it sit too long we had no chlorine in there for days now. Any ideas would be welcomed
Any ideas how to fix this?
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All you can do is keep your pump running, vacuum the bottom (as needed) clean your filter as needed and keep your chlorine levels up. We had a mess when we had our trees removed. We followed the SLAM method, cleaned everything from the bottom we could and ran our filter continuously. We cleaned it two or three times (we have a DE filter) before we had it cleared back up. It takes a few days, but it will clear up.
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Do you have a way to vacuum that will by pass the filter? If not then share a pic of your equipment so we can tell you how to make one. That will be very helpful to clear this mess up 
PJinFrance
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A couple of years back we had the farmers field end up in our pool after a heavy storm - We are at the bottom of the field (he had just cut the crop and ploughed the land). It took us a week and we ended up doing a 'no empty refill' - it was the only way to finally get rid of the mud that was in suspension in the water. We did not filter and just used the pump to go to waste four or five times, filling up with fresh water each time in between. At the end we did a SLAM of the pool and eventually got back to being able to use it. Since then we have altered the landscaping to ensure if it happens again it will go past the pool and not end up in it. Good luck
Look into skimmer socks and return line bags (like the Slime Bag), which should catch some of the fine particles in addition to your filter. If it's sand/silt in your pool, chlorine isn't going to help. You need to physically filter it out. Run your filter 24/7 (and hopefully you have a bottom drain somewhere down there).
