Turbidity - Can you see clearly Now?

Standing on the deck of your pool,  looking down - you can see your 50p and its heads - the water is sparkling - crystal clear you think.

Perhaps not!

Your water is sh*t, I have been heard to say! Sometimes the incredulous look from the Manager as he/she says “but my water readings are perfect, Free Chlorine is 1.5ppm (mg/l) my combined is 0.5 and my total 2.0 - how can that be?” 

Often at this stage the Manager usually gets quite defensive (as well as a little hurt)

I often thought that maintaining pool water was a little bit of a “black art”, it takes someone with a keen interest in water chemistry, a sound knowledge of the plant room and of course well trained.

It’s the sign of the times that so very few swimming pools have their own dedicated “plant man” much of the duties fall into the laps of the already over stretched Duty Managers who may only “tip a nod” to the pool and do the water tests as trained.

So it is not so surprising that there are not so many on site who are well informed about turbidity (how many sites have a turbidity meter?)

So to try and help explain a little more about turbidity in layman's language and WHY we sometimes can’t see through water, I asked two acknowledged  experts in their field and co-hosts of Poolcast The Swimming Pool Podcast , Robin Mitchell and Ian Ogilvie to join a  session with View from the Pool to enlighten, educate and entertain  us all.

Glad to say, we ticked all three boxes!