Re: New to the forum but have had a pool for 10 years - Need Some Advice - Thanks!
Your pictures and the fact that your pool is turning green after rain clearly indicates your chemistry is off, I don't care what your local experts say. Your chemistry is off, and that is a fact, or your pool would not be turning green. Also, it is impossible, yes impossible, like completely impossible, to determine if someone has been in your exact situation without looking at valid chemistry readings. Even if you found someone with a pool, and a sloping yard, and for whom it turned green after it rained, there would be no way to ascertain if their situation was remotely similar to yours without looking at chemistry levels.
I will give you this advice since it sounds like what you are looking for: put in your drains and solve your runoff problem. Then come back here if you want sanitized water in your pool. You don't have it now, and won't have it when you put drains in without dealing with the chemistry imbalance you obviously have.
pookiesunshine - agreed. Thank you.
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Thanks to all who have responded. And thanks everyone who seem to generally care! However, what most on this forum have failed to recognize is that I know (and have acknowledged several times) chemistry is critical and must be correct. Given that, I can/will work with local experts to get/keep the chemistry correct. So, for the purposes of this forum, I was hoping to get beyond that fact and hear from others who have had "correct chemistry" and who may have also experienced a similar issue due to excessive rain/yard run off into their pool. If you do not have experience with this exact scenario, please do not waste your time or mine to provide an opinion about chemistry. If you do, I'd love to hear what you did - in addition to making sure your chemistry was correct. LOL!
Your pictures and the fact that your pool is turning green after rain clearly indicates your chemistry is off, I don't care what your local experts say. Your chemistry is off, and that is a fact, or your pool would not be turning green. Also, it is impossible, yes impossible, like completely impossible, to determine if someone has been in your exact situation without looking at valid chemistry readings. Even if you found someone with a pool, and a sloping yard, and for whom it turned green after it rained, there would be no way to ascertain if their situation was remotely similar to yours without looking at chemistry levels.
I will give you this advice since it sounds like what you are looking for: put in your drains and solve your runoff problem. Then come back here if you want sanitized water in your pool. You don't have it now, and won't have it when you put drains in without dealing with the chemistry imbalance you obviously have.
