Category: Disinfection Byproducts
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A Case Study: Optimizing For the Future of Aquatics
Although no one knows how long it will take for aquatics facilities to be operating like before, it’s clear that COVID-19 has already changed the way facilities will operate forever. To succeed in a post-COVID world, keep staff on payroll, and make patrons happy, we must find opportunities to maximize what we have while we…
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10 Reasons YMCAs Are Switching to Clear Comfort AOP Pool Treatment
With patrons actively searching for safe spaces to exercise, enjoy and relax, YMCA aquatic facilities are embracing the opportunity to provide the best and healthiest swimming environments to their communities. YMCAs across the United States are switching to Clear Comfort’s Advanced Oxidation (AOP) supplemental sanitation system to provide their patrons with the assurance that their…
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Your Complete Guide: Home Pool Shock 101
To keep your pool clean, safe, and healthy for the best possible swimming experience there are specific tasks that must be completed before diving in. To ensure crisp, freshwater one of those tasks to check off the list is shocking your pool. Shocking your swimming pool or spa has always been good practice for recreational…
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10 Reasons Why Rec Centers Love Clear Comfort’s AOP Pool Treatment
July is National Park and Recreation Month, a time to recognize the role that parks and recreation professionals have in making their communities better places to live, work and play. More than ever, communities need their parks and rec centers to stay active and healthy. In search of safer and easier solutions, a growing number…
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Six Common Swimming Pool Myths: Setting the Record Straight
Swimming pools can have a bad rap, but often this is because of myths that many people believe to be true. Here we bust common swimming pool myths.
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Lifeguard Lung: The Hidden Danger for Indoor Swimming Pools
Chlorine use in indoor swimming pools has not improved in the 20 years since the study was published. There have been many more articles since this one confirming that it is chloramines that cause the symptoms.
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Total Dissolved Solids (TDS): The Ultimate Guide For Aquatic Operators
Do you ever wonder why your pool water may begin to look dull and not as sparkly as it once did? It might be due to your total dissolved solids. One of the most overlooked concepts in pool water chemistry is the measure of total dissolved solids. Your total dissolved solids, or TDS, value is…
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Can Pool Disinfection By-products Raise Your Risk of Cancer?
According to multiple cancer studies, swimming in chlorinated pools with disinfection by-products (DBPs) may increase your risk of developing various types of cancer; however, this does not mean that people should stop swimming altogether. In an interview with NBC News, Manolis Kogevinas, an epidemiologist at the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona said,…
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Goodson Recreation Center Upgrades Pool Water and Air Quality with New and Improved Water Treatment System
Clear Comfort’s Sustainable AOP Pool Technology Helps Colorado Recreation Center Offer a Healthier Swimming Environment type=”video/mp4″ / Centennial, Colorado – August 21, 2019 – South Suburban’s Goodson Recreation Center furthered its commitment to improving patron experience by lowering pool chemical use with Clear Comfort’s Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) pool and spa disinfection system. By incorporating…