HELP with Green/Brown Water

[poolrookie]

Got up to blue water this morning, patience is a wonderful thing! Had some brown stuff on a couple spots on the ground (dust/silt/or whatever it is) try to vacuum these spots and it came right back through the sand filter, i thought the sand was supposed to collect this stuff....that is ridiculous...so all it did was mix it up and the pools pretty blue cloudy water, back to more of that dirty color... i guess blue and dirt make very light green...

should i vacuum this stuff out to waste?? after it settles again.. i would lose so much water though and have to add more of creek or well water, probably not a good thing.. hope my kit comes today so i can test the creek water to know if we can add it safely...

[PoolDoc]

Once you get your kit, check the pool water and the creek water.

But, what may work well for you is to add creek water SLOWLY via the skimmer, but with a couple of chlorine tabs in the skimmer. The combination of chlorine plus filtering may filter out most of the metals before it makes it to your pool.