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Article: Going to the source: knowing the properties of your source water can help you determine which chemicals to use for disinfection and pH adjustment. (service).
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- Pool & Spa News
- Article date:
- February 8, 2002
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Most service technicians know how sanitizers, pH, calcium hardness and total alkalinity (TA) affect pool water chemistry. However, water experts say many overlook the most prominent influence on those parameters: a pool's source water.
"One of the biggest mistakes most technicians make is that they don't bother to check or monitor [source] water," says Wally James, president of Con-Serv Associates in Powder Springs, Ga.
The properties of the source, or "makeup" water, not only affect how the water is balanced, but actually can dictate which chemicals should be used to sanitize the pool and to maintain proper pH and TA levels.
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