white powder substance in pool

[rodknock]

i live in a condo and have complained to the office, sent emails and took the office person out to the pool to show them.

there is a white powder type substance all over the bottom of the pool. i am unable to get them to clean the pool or an explanitation of what it is.

on the wall by the pool there is a plaque that lists the chemical balances and if the pool is sutable for use. the last time they posted any thing was 19-3-2015.

i have my own test strip kit and tested the water, the free chlorine reads 0. the allkalinity and ph read low.

who can i contact about this pool? health department?

i have sent numerious emails about the pool being unsafe and nothing is done.

the kids wadding pool has the same problem.

[Mcffee]

It sounds like dry sperm. Sometimes I only produce white powder if I had several 'heavy nights with girls' in a row.

[NeverSure]

The powder you mention might be dead skin cells and particles of oil which at some point were saturated by chlorine and became heavier than water. This is one of the main reasons a pool is vacuumed regularly.

Chlorine begins to degrade when exposed to light and this is why we buy it in light proof bottles. Even when the chlorine starts as sodium hypochlorite powder or tablets, it begins to degrade in heat, light and water. The pool needs an automatic chlorinator and testing two or three times a day to adjust it for chlorine and PH.

Be aware that a properly chlorinated pool doesn't smell much like chlorine. Degraded chlorine has a strong smell which could fool someone into thinking there's enough or even too much chlorine.

In a properly chlorinated pool the water is clear because chlorine saturates the bad guys and takes them to the bottom. If a pool is murky it probably doesn't have enough chlorine and the answer is to shock it with chlorine and clear it by vacuuming the bottom.

Bottom line, I wouldn't swim in that pool.

[Gonsalviz]

They allow illegal drugs in pools?