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• 1 Cornelius Mckenzie // Apr 24, 2003 at 9:12 pm

  I take it that you -also- have city water, for which you have to pay.
  Well water can often have a lot of minerals in it. In particular, lime
  (”hardness”), which can slowly precipitate out, and iron, which can indeed
  cause staining.
  City water often comes from surface reservoirs containing rainwater runoff.
  Runoff water will, I think, almost always have less dissolved minerals than
  well water.
  However, it’s also entirely possible that your city water is coming from a
  well. In which case, by all means save the money.
  You can try getting a water test done on both sources and see if they’re
  actually any different. A pool store can do hardness and iron for free. (But
  note, my experience is that the pool store iron tests are too imprecise –
  they say I have no significant iron, when actually I do.)
  Garry

• 2 Rowena Iona // Apr 25, 2003 at 2:09 pm

  I have well water also, I do not have city water. I am worried about
  iron also. What can be used to get rid of the iron? I know my water
  is loaded with it. My sinks , toilets… get iron stains all the
  time. I use iron out to get rid of the stains in the house but I have
  been told iron out can not be used in pools because it is an anti
  oxidizer the oppisit of chlorine that is an oxidizer, so the stains
  will come right back and will make the chlorine less effective which
  is the last thing we want.
  I also have a question about algae. My chlorine is high, the PH is
  low , yet my pool turned green again. I just don’t get it, maybe I am
  not running the filter enough. How long is best to keep the filter
  running on a regular bases and is there any other reason why my water
  would turn green???? The chlorine was more then a little high when it
  went green, it had about 8 times the amount of chlorine needed as far
  as my test kit said.

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