Keep Your Pool Safe and Healthy!

If you are inviting others to enjoy your pool, it is your responsibility to keep your pool safe and healthy for your guests! The first and best thing you can do to prevent recreational water illnesses is regularly check chlorine and pH levels in the pool. Chlorine is your main germ-fighter. It kills off germs that get into the pool water, but it takes time to work. Your chlorine levels should be somewhere between 1.0 and 3.0 parts per million, and you need to test your levels daily. Why? Because things like dirt and debris in the water and even … Continue reading

How to Clean Up Poop In The Pool

It is gross, but it does occasionally happen: your backyard oasis becomes an accidental bathroom. Fecal matter in the pool water can carry germs and bacteria like E. coli and hepatitis A, or even parasites that can make other swimmers sick. Recreational water illnesses are spread most often by swallowing pool water that has been contaminated. One person with diarrhea can easily contaminate the pool — though the water will dilute and distribute the germs, the germs are still present. Chlorine in the pool water does kill most germs that are responsible for water-borne illnesses, but chlorine takes time to … Continue reading