tarp floating on water? is this ok?

[poorswimmer]

Hi, I'm new here. I have a small 10'x6' bestway pool, about 900 gallon.
In need of a pool cover and not easy to find for this size,
I bought this tarp here
8 ft. x 10 ft. Heavy-Duty Tarp-HF0810 - The Home Depot

I thought I would be able to use bungee cord to cover it up but it has proven more difficult than I thought.
It just touches the water and floats on top.
My question is that is this going to leach anything into the water?
I could put some PVC pipes on top to try to get more of the tarp off the water.

Thanks, looking forward to talk more.

 

[CJadamec]

There is nothing wrong with the tarp touching the water, winter covers for above ground pools are basically just big tarps.

Keeping a cover on the smaller soft sided pools can be a challenge or so I've heard. The most coming method is tie the corners of the tarp down to something heavy on the outside of the pool like a five gallon bucket full of sand.

 

[Richard320]

Save your empty bleach bottles and fill 'em up and use them as weights.

 

[poorswimmer]

Save your empty bleach bottles and fill 'em up and use them as weights.

Thanks for the great idea.
I have put together a couple of PVC grids and this helps a lot to get a lot of the tarp off the water.