Dumping salt water in the woods

[wysocki]

My SWG pool has an excessive amount of salt in the water. I need to dump some of the water out and refill with fresh water to bring the level down. I have 3600 ppm of salt in the water now and I need to dump about 3000 gallons of it to bring it down to 3200 ppm. I live on a hillside in Southern California and have a small woodsy area going down the hill with a variety of trees and bushes on it.

My question is, can I safely dump that water down the hillside without killing off the trees and bushes from the salt? There really aren't any other ways of getting rid of it since I don't have sewers.

 

[jeffchap]

That is only 10% the salinity of salt water, so I don't think it would be harmful. My overflow empties into my yard and the grass around it doesn't appear to suffer at all.

 

[cparktd]

Is that out of the operating range of your SWCG? Mine says 3000 to 4000 ppm.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

My backwash pipe goes directly into a dry creekbed with lots and lots of greenery in it. Everything is overgrowing nicely.

Why are you dumping?? Most cells I'm aware of will happily make chlorine even if the salt is a tad high. If the device is happy, I'm happy.

Don't sweat the small stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff.

Maddie

 

[pauly3dotcom]

I wouldn't dump water to get down to 3,200. My pool was at 3,800 with no ill effects.

 

[wireform]

Your not mentioning how you're testing salinity other then your control I assume. You need a K-1766 salinity test kit to be sure. Why do you need to dump water, is the SWCG complaining? If not I wouldn't worry.