Yesterday I drained 1/4 of the water and refilled, brought CYA from 110ppm down to 70ppm. I can live with CYA at 70ppm. My question is, can I drop to 50ppm CYA with just doing some deep backwashings over the next year? I no longer use pucks and have converted to bleach. I'm aware of my minimum and target FC levels based upon a CYA of 70ppm. I'm really not wanting to do another partial drain and refill, which then entails balancing the TA, pH and CH again. Thank you. By the way this is not a SWG pool, so my ideal CYA range is 30-50ppm.
High CYA
- Thread starter GAPOOL14
- Start date
- Mar 24, 2014
- 2,455
- Pool Size
- 32000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool SJ-55
It seems to break down by about 3-5 ppm/month anyway, so between that, splash-out and normal water replacement yes, it would probably drop 20 over the next year. Maybe more if the reverse CYA fairy* visits over the winter.
*Sometimes there are large drops in CYA over the winter due to some weird bacteria/ammonia things going on.
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*Sometimes there are large drops in CYA over the winter due to some weird bacteria/ammonia things going on.
e:clarity
- Jun 7, 2017
- 9,156
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Your pool is 20k gallons. Backwashing is 20 gallons or so? The math is not on your side. Your CYA isn't going to dillute much with just backwashing.
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