All Wastewater Into a pool?

[Ted_C]

Got a question for everyone.

I'm thinking of buying a house here in Largo and putting in a pool. I've heard saltwater pools are the way to go due to lower maintenance.

Besides dumping my RO waste into the pool (this appears to be documented and ok)- what do you all think of dumping my water change wastewater into the pool?

My plans are to have around a 300+ gallon aquarium - so the water changes will be upwards of 75 gallons a week.

Otherwise - what's the proper method to dump off that saltwater? Will it kill the grass if I just waste line it to the yard? Should it go down the drain (I can't imagine Pinellas County being to happy trying to process saltwater)?

 

[viper12775]

I wouldn't dump water change sw into your pool the salt level for a chlorine generator is low but to waist would be fine

 

[LiquidCache]

It would be a extremely high salt content versus what your pool would normally have. Every week your salt content would rise a lot.

 

[risin]

RO waste ok. No on the water change water though.

 

[C4DC]

I do both. Ran a waste water from the RO to help with the top off as well as pump the water change into it. The chlorine will kill any of the critters living in the water and the salt helps keep the levels up (a little). I probably dump 30 gal into a 20k pool once a month or so, doesn't make any significant difference in the pool salt levels for me. The pool is about 10% concentration compared with the sea water, yet it took 40 40lb bags to get the pool to .003 on my refractometer.
You would be dumping a lot more than me, so it would depend on pool size, season(summer uses more salt), and chlorine generation level. I'd get it checked at pinch a penny for a few changes and see what it does. If it is a small pool you will have to monitor it as the generators have an upper limit and you could blow by that for a smaller pool and in the cooler weather.

 

[robthorn]

I know a great Remax team if you need a Realtor. Troy Walseth.

 

[GrouperGenius]

Take my word for it. Do not dump your water change in the pool. I tried that and salt level shot through the roof after a while. So much that I had to drain the pool and start over. If you have palms especially Queen palms, put your water change on them.

 

[bigzman]

GroperGenius,

I have heard that adding waste saltwater to queen palm is a good Idea. Sorry to ask this on this thread. Have you noticed a difference in growth when you added waste saltwater? I have a palm tree that is not been growing as well as the 3 others that do grow but nothing like my next door neighbor. My neighbor’s queen palms seems to grow every time I blink. She only adds Epson salt no ferts.

Regards,
Z

 

[anbosu]

I dump it in the grass and I haven't had any issues. I also don't really see an issue with putting saltwater down the drain - by the time it gets anywhere it would be extremely diluted.

 

[mandarinfanatic]

I dump it in the grass and I haven't had any issues. I also don't really see an issue with putting saltwater down the drain - by the time it gets anywhere it would be extremely diluted.

Saltwater kills grass over time

 

[anbosu]

How long because I've been doing it for years

 

[Ted_C]

thanks everyone.

I'm all good on realtor - thanks.

So general consensus seems to be no for saltwater into the pool.

I figured it would follow the same rules as not topping off your evap water with salt water. The salt is left over from evaporation.

I figured with RO waste water being 4 to 1 ratio of good water - the math might work itself out that for every gallon of saltwater waste water you put into the pool - you'd have 4 gallons of RO waste water.

SO if I were to do a 75 gallon water change - I'd get 300 gallons of waste RO water (so that 300 gallons of waste RO would make the saltwater pool temporarily lower concentration) - then add in 75 gallons of the saltwater waste (a few days later).

Your all right though - the salt would just keep increasing and increasing in the pool till it needed to be diluted.

 

[snake1]

Ted just make the pool an aquarium and then you can snorkel in it

 

[Ted_C]

If I were to do that - I should just buy wholesale salt from ESV and hav ethem deliver a 20k gallon kit to my front door. haha.

I actually looked into the logistics of that - having a 20k gallon pool that is an aquarium. It's a nightmare in salt and equipment costs. Imagine the skimmer you'd need.

 

[risin]

The salt is consumed by the swg to create chlorine so it will decrease over time. Whether your waste salt water would keep it in balance or put it over is the question. Typically you shoot for a salt level high enough for the swg to work and low enough that it doesn't taste salty. A salt pool is a chlorine pool just automatic.

Anyway... I clean my skimmer cup in my water change waste so I definitely will not be putting that in my pool.

 

[snake1]

I just seen a fish tank king episode of a lazy river under someone's house in the keys and the snorkel in it ....it has fake corals but its still cool ......I guess if you lived on the water you would have all the water change salt you could ever want just hook a pump up out your seawall

 

[snake1]

Just look for a house on the water you could set the pumps up to do water changes daily no skimmer required.....

 

[Ted_C]

Just look for a house on the water you could set the pumps up to do water changes daily no skimmer required.....

lol - not at my price ranges. I'm looking for 2+ bedroom, 1+ bath, 1000+ sq ft, 1+ garage/carport is a must, no flood zone. My criteria is actually pretty crazy.

North of Park, West of Belcher, South of Sunset Point

There's got to be some sort of covered parking (garage or Carport).

A pool would be nice but not required. If it is absent - then the property must be situated so that I can access the back yard with a truck. No trees that would block construction of a pool.

Street View. Well kept neighborhood. No chance of Floodzone (now or in future).

I cross checked the property with trulia to check the crime and also checked crime against Clearwater/Pinnellas Sheriff sites. Got to be low crime.

Home Pics: No flat roofs, no vaulted cielings. All Tile would be nice (but I can fix)

Discard all HOAs

Discard all Split / Multi Level homes (Ranch Only)

Discard all framed construction

no 55+ communities.

No high tension power lines in view.

No auction terms / web tech fee - I've been deleting these

No busy streets (at least two blocks from starkey, belcher, ulmerton, etc.)

Did you know that everything in oldsmar is pretty much a flood zone? I wanted to live close to FAOIS - but not like that...

At this point in time, there's only around 13 properties that are on my short list.

 

[snake1]

Well good luck looking there are a lot of good deals out there now

 

[C4DC]

Like others have said, the pool uses the salt up to generate Cl, so it will consume salt. The question is how much. There are several variables to fit in here. I'd say with your change schedule you would be dumping too much salt in the pool and just dump it down the drain (city sewer). I pumped mine down the driveway before I converted my pool over to salt. I didn't want that much salt in my septic system. BTW, pool salt is $6-$9 a 40lb bag and I probably add 5 bags a year to mine in addition to the waste water.