- May 11, 2021
- 973
- Pool Size
- 7000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-30
So, I have seem someone posting that pollen does not consume chlorine. No point in point fingers…
Chlorine attacks organic matter and pollen is organic matter, so seems to be reasonable to believe chlorine will try to destroy pollen and be consumed in the process.
Now being reasonable does mean it is correct. But my experience (empirical evidence) at least is part suggests that is indeed correct.
To avoid problems after opening my pool this season I kept it most of the time covered and with FC almost at SLAM level (about 12-14ppm, but wasn’t trying to be precise in that). It stayed like that for 3 full days (about 84 hours given or taken). With the cover my FC was dropping about 2ppm/day. On the morning of the 3rd day I got quite some rain that washed a lot of pollen into the water. Next morning when I removed the cover there was an intolerable smell of CC… tears and had 3ppm of CC and FC was still above 10ppm.
Under those conditions there is absolutely no way algae consumed my chlorine and the only obvious thing to enter the pool was pollen.
So does chlorine consume pollen?
Chlorine attacks organic matter and pollen is organic matter, so seems to be reasonable to believe chlorine will try to destroy pollen and be consumed in the process.
Now being reasonable does mean it is correct. But my experience (empirical evidence) at least is part suggests that is indeed correct.
To avoid problems after opening my pool this season I kept it most of the time covered and with FC almost at SLAM level (about 12-14ppm, but wasn’t trying to be precise in that). It stayed like that for 3 full days (about 84 hours given or taken). With the cover my FC was dropping about 2ppm/day. On the morning of the 3rd day I got quite some rain that washed a lot of pollen into the water. Next morning when I removed the cover there was an intolerable smell of CC… tears and had 3ppm of CC and FC was still above 10ppm.
Under those conditions there is absolutely no way algae consumed my chlorine and the only obvious thing to enter the pool was pollen.
So does chlorine consume pollen?