SWIMMING POOL LINKS

Swimming Pool Chemistry

D. De La Matter ................................................................................................................. doug@dougdelamatter.com

[Links all active in Oct. 2003]

SWIMMING POOL LINKS

AM-02: School Swimming Pools...................Guidelines for Operators ( Australia)

Lots of sections of very clear, very practical technical info. about pool chemistry, pool management and other "swimming water" issues.
[Search for "AM-02: School Swimming" on the host page]
http://education.qld.gov.au/corporate/doem/assetman/am-02000/am-02000.htm

Trouble-Free Pools Website and Discussion Forum

A good, informative site for quantitative practices in operating pools manitained by Richard Falk. http://www.troublefreepools.com/viewtopic.php?t=628

PPOA (Professional Pool Operators of America)

Excellent series of articles by Kent Williams and others, providing very accurate technical information in technical language accessible to any Chemistry student.

On-line information appears as columns in the Pumproom Press, the trade paper for this organization

Go to http://www.ppoa.org . click on the link to "Articles". This will access the following links (and more):

http://www.ppoa.org/articles.html
http://www.ppoa.org/what_is_alkalinity_1.htm
http://www.ppoa.org/what_is_alkalinity_2.htm

A detailed discussion of the pros and cons of using cyanuric acid as a chlorine "stabilizer"
http://www.ppoa.org/PrP_Cyanurics%20-%20Benefactor%20or%20Bomb.pdf

What's all this nonsense about green hair being caused by chlorine?
http://www.ppoa.org/turquoise.htm

Glossary of terms:
http://www.watersedgepool.com/glossary.htm

A New Approach to the General Chemistry Laboratory
Joseph F. Bieron, Paul J. McCarthy, and Thomas W. Kermis
Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 14208
...................describes their chemistry course that involves a unit on Pool management.
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/1996/Nov/abs1021.html

Explaination of the use of thiosulfate in reducing chloramine levels etc. in a pdf document
http://www.pmlprocess.com/Industry_Applications/ZA_applic_Odour_Control_in_WWT_RevC_A.pdf

ASTHMA and Chlorine ??:
[See a recent (preliminary) study on the links between asthma in swimmers and exposure to chloramines at: European Respiratory Society 19 Sep 2002].

http://www.ersnet.org/4/3/4_3_11_1.asp

DRINKING WATER

Health Canada
A fascinating site for many reasons. Many factsheets are available for downloading in pdf format. Most water references here are for Drinking Water.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/water/water_talk.htm
Sample: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/iyh/chlorine.html

CBC News backgrounder on drinking water issues especially E Coli contamination at Walkerton Ontario. Very complete and with many good links:
http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/water_treatment.html

Report of the Walkerton Inquiry, Part Two, A Strategy for Safe Drinking Water.
A detailed discussion of the disinfection properties of chlorine, chloramines etc. as applied to drinking water.
http://www.waterhealth.com/Text_Version/residuals_txt.htm

City of Virginia Beach has converted from using chlorine to using chloramines in drinking water treatment. This site is an excellent starting point to enter the debate about the use of chloramines in drinking water.
http://www.vbgov.com/dept/putility/chloramine/default.asp

Another useful link:
http://sciborg.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/applychem/watertreatment.html

WASTEWATER TREATMENT

Ames City, Iowa has an excellent site describing their water works and pollution control facilities. It also provides a very complete set of links to sites that are concerned with drinking and wastewater quality.
http://www.city.ames.ia.us/waterweb/default.htm
http://www.city.ames.ia.us/waterweb/links.htm

Great Primer on Water Pollution:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5161/water1.htm

OTHER USEFUL LINKS:

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/
http://www.wqa.org/
http://www.awwa.org/ (click on Water Information Library)

http://ci.richmond.in.us/departments_and_services/sanitation/waste_water_treatment.html
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/

http://www.ec.gc.ca/envhome.html

http://www.ec.gc.ca/water_e.html

http://www.ocwa.com/ [click on Public Information ]

http://www.oxychem.com/products/handbooks/bleach.pdf

http://www.odysseymanufacturing.com/bleach_information.doc
gives excellent information about the factors involved in commerical production and use of sodium hypochlorite. It contains very interesting references to the second-order decomposition of NaHClO to NaCl and NaClO₃ and how that impacts on decisions about desirable concentrations in the product.