They Started up everything yesterday! But now water looks very cloudy :/

[NtxMelanie]

So our 14 month odyssey of a pool build is finally wrapping up, and they turned on the pumps for the waterfalls yesterday after filling the day before. When they did that a ton of dirt flushed out into the water. They added a bag of chlorine (I believe it was enough shock for 10-15k gallons, ours is 5500 gallons total).
Now it’s been 24 hours and the water is very cloudy, and this is what I measured when I tested the water:

FC 16.5 ppm
CC 0.5 ppm

200 ppm CH

170 TA (difficult to measure with such high chlorine)

8.2 PH

No CYA

Right now the waterfalls are not working quite right, there’s not enough pressure. They can’t even see the intake in the pool to start working on it because the water is so cloudy. And of course the free chlorine is so high and I don’t know if there’s any way to lower that or if it’s just going to take time.

Any thoughts on clearing up this pool?

ETA: I measured the numbers yesterday mid day and they were the exact same as this morning, and I believe we got some rain last night.

 

[V___25]

With no CYA in the state of Texas, I assume the FC will come down quickly. Did it get cloudy from the dirt that came out or did it get cloudy 24 hours later after they added chlorine? What type of filter do you have? Has it been on 24/7?

 

[NtxMelanie]

With no CYA in the state of Texas, I assume the FC will come down quickly. Did it get cloudy from the dirt that came out or did it get cloudy 24 hours later after they added chlorine? What type of filter do you have? Has it been on 24/7?

The filter has been on 24/7 and it got cloudy I think from the dirt that came out. It is new plaster too, and then new construction, so a lot of dust in the pipes.

I’m not sure the type of filter (totally new at this) but I will check.