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Maintaining a pool gets less easy as the amount of gunk added increases in proportion to the volume of water. A lightly used swimming pool? Not so bad. A lig
by amluto 2y ago
Maintaining a pool gets less easy as the amount of gunk added increases in proportion to the volume of water. A lightly used swimming pool? Not so bad. A lightly used swimming pool with an attached spa with spillover? Barely any harder, unless you care about maintaining a nonzero chlorine residual in the hot tub. Residential hot tub that doesn't spill into a pool and gets any amount of serious use? Utterly gross without real effort.
And all of this assumes that you're just not concerned about cryptosporidium. The chlorine levels in a pool do not reliably kill cryptosporidium! So you need something like UV, which will kill it as it goes through the UV chamber.
A splash pad has huge load of junk and a small water volume. The one nice property is that almost all the exposure is to water that is fresh out of the pump and associated filters, which makes UV quite attractive.
- rootusrootus 2y agoAgreed, eliminating crypto in a typical residential pool is basically impossible. If I were sure I had a pool infected with it, I'd probably drain, disinfect as much as possible, refill, and then SLAM the pool hard with no CYA for a while. What a PITA. And that assumes the pool is the type that can be drained. The most reliable solution, of course, is to screen the people who are going to use your pool and don't allow anyone who has even a hint of crypto symptoms to get in. I hope that most public pools invest in a UV system. It's hard to prevent some dumbass with diarrhea from deciding today was a good day to swim anyway. Lots of those types of people in the world.