my fill water test

[duraleigh]

Gordy,

Just turning the eyeballs up will make it slow. Get your pH down to 7.0 and then make a little device to SPRAY your return water up in the air. You need bubbles and lot's of them. You can unscrew the eyeball base on your pool return pipe and find a std 1.5 " female thread inside. For about three bucks, you can screw in a 1.5" 90 and "bring" your return to the surface. Put an end cap on the 1.5" pipe and drill four holes around the perimeter of the cap. That should give you four jets up into the air fifteen feet or so and your aeration will proceed quickly.

[Poconos]

Sevver. One downside of using an air compressor, shop type, is the slight amount of oil they put out in the air stream unless you have an oil/sediment trap in the line. You would make out better, and cheaper, spraying the water by some mechanism as suggested by Gordy.
Al

[waterbear]

As far as I know there is no easy way to deal with the ALK in the fill water other than lowering the ALK in the pool to the low end of the range so you have some time before the ALK rises high enough that you have to lower it again from refills. Once you get the hang of the procedure it's really pretty easy...and if it's something that you need to do on a regular basis (which it looks like you do) then either investing in a floating fountain that attaches to the return or making one from pvc is a good investment!
Just my 2 cents!

[gordyjamz]

Thanks for the responses. I think I'll get a little creative and see what I can do. Muritaic acid in pools when the pump is off seems to help a little too. It seems to have a greater effect on the alk rather than the Ph. For instance, last week, I put in a gallon of acid. Pooled it in four spots evenly around the pool. The next day I went from 220 to 190 alk, while ph only went from 7.3 to 7.1. I'll give the aeriation a shot and see what happens.