Need to SLAM after fresh water top up every time

[PoolGate]

Get an aquarium test kit and test your tap water to see if you can detect any ammonia. I can't believe by the time your water gets to your house there would be any detectible ammonia left. Ammonia will eat up chlorine very fast but it will not cause clouding when it does.

How close are you to your water tower?

 

[AK-]

Get an aquarium test kit and test your tap water to see if you can detect any ammonia. I can't believe by the time your water gets to your house there would be any detectible ammonia left. Ammonia will eat up chlorine very fast but it will not cause clouding when it does.

How close are you to your water tower?

It could explain some of the FC loss, but not the cloudiness. I'd test anyway at least to know.

Ferric (iron) Sulfate is a coagulant, but that doesn't seem to be enough to cause cloudiness alone.

Is the cloudiness momentary or does it only goes away when you SLAM?

I never had this problem last year

Many many years ago my sister lived in a fast growing small town. Her water was great until a day it started coming out of the tap milky, but after letting it stand for some time it would turn clear.... Turns out the town replaced a water main, increasing the system pressure just a little bit and the stuff they used to treat the water wasnt standing in the pipes long enough to become clear (or oxidize each other)... .Sometimes the change is not obvious.

 

[Kimden]

It could explain some of the FC loss, but not the cloudiness. I'd test anyway at least to know.

Ferric (iron) Sulfate is a coagulant, but that doesn't seem to be enough to cause cloudiness alone.

Is the cloudiness momentary or does it only goes away when you SLAM?


Many many years ago my sister lived in a fast growing small town. Her water was great until a day it started coming out of the tap milky, but after letting it stand for some time it would turn clear.... Turns out the town replaced a water main, increasing the system pressure just a little bit and the stuff they used to treat the water wasnt standing in the pipes long enough to become clear (or oxidize each other)... .Sometimes the change is not obvious.

We live on an acreage, have city water on a drip system to holding tanks in our basement. The water clears up when I reach slam levels, hence why I think it’s algae. And also the skimmer socks turn brown as well during this. I’ve got the bucket test going as you suggested.

 

[AK-]

We live on an acreage, have city water on a drip system to holding tanks in our basement. The water clears up when I reach slam levels, hence why I think it’s algae. And also the skimmer socks turn brown as well during this. I’ve got the bucket test going as you suggested.

Have you check your water tanks for algae?

 

[Kimden]

Have you check your water tanks for algae?

So bucket test results. Did with the hose from the house started at 3.5 ppm fc, 2 hours later 1.5 fc

did straight from hose bib without hose to see if it was in the hose. 4.5 ppm fc, 2 hours later 2.5 fc.
Looks like it’s my water tanks. There’s some orangeish sediment at the bottom of the tanks. Anybody have any clue how to clean these as they are our household drinking water and every other use? I will also test the water before it reaches my tanks, to see what those results are.
Never cleaned the tanks, then only have a small opening at the top and are about 6 feet tall.

 

[FlappyLipps]

I'm no expert but I use bleach to clean my rv tanks.

 

[PoolGate]

Why do you have holding tanks if you are on city water? Did the house used to be well water?

 

[Kimden]

Why do you have holding tanks if you are on city water? Did the house used to be well water?

We are 15 minutes out of the city. There’s not enough pressure just to have “regular” system so we have two 300 gallon tanks in our basement that fill slowly from a drip system.

 

[PoolGate]

We are 15 minutes out of the city. There’s not enough pressure just to have “regular” system so we have two 300 gallon tanks in our basement that fill slowly from a drip system.

I think I would have a professional come check out your system and for sure have your water checked by a lab. I'd go as far as saying you should stop drinking any of that water until it is checked. No telling what nasties are living in that tank.

 

[Kimden]

I'm no expert but I use bleach to clean my rv tanks.

I get that it’ll be bleach I use. Just going to be a pain in the Rear since my access hole isn’t very large. Getting the sediment sucked off the bottom might be fun too.

 

[AK-]

I get that it’ll be bleach I use. Just going to be a pain in the Rear since my access hole isn’t very large. Getting the sediment sucked off the bottom might be fun too.

I’m sorry for you situation. In the bright found the issue before something worst happen

 

[AK-]

Were you able to figure out your fill water?

 

[Kimden]

Were you able to figure out your fill water?

I don’t think it was my fill water. But we did slam and scrub the tanks cleans. My pool has been good since this post. I added algaecide for insurance purposes in case my chlorine does dip too low. So far so good.