Converting from chlorine to salt water pool

[Michael Hurley]

My concerns are I have two water features that have copper where the water runs out and the water features are surrounded with stone but no submerged in water.
The coping around the pool looks to be concrete. How will the salt affect these areas especially the copper.

 

[ajw22]

Welcome to TFP.

The copper should be fine. Copper can't handle ocean levels of salt, but modern SWG salt levels around 3,000 ppm are fine.

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