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Cyanurics ~ Benefactor or Bomb?
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The Dreaded E.Coli Bacterium
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What is the Fuss Over Total Dissolved Solids?
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Tech Talk

Sump Stories

Miscellaneous Articles

The Pumproom Press is the official newsletter of PPOA. It is a quarterly newsletter published for active PPOA members which includes technical articles, information regarding pool courses and advanced training, networking for job opportunities, a computer bulletin board, safety information, member contributions, humore and more.

The following is an index of articles and features of the Pumproom Press through May 2005 (PrP 30).

Technical
Safety
Management
Health

Technical
Acids ~ Chemical Corner; What is an Acid? (a serious chem lesson)	Issue 20, P.4
Acids ~ Muratic vs. Sulfuric, Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 27, P.3
Air Handling, corrosion ~...Need Some Fresh Air; Maintenance	Issue 11, P.6
Air Quality ~ Providing Air for Comp. Swimmers; Management	Issue 12, P.2
Alternative disinfection sources; Bromine/Ozone Vol II/3	Issue 4, P. 2
Alternative disinfection sources; Bromine/Oz., Chem, Letters, Quiz	Issue 14, all
Alum Floc ~ Why Use Alum?; Chemical Corner	Issue 12, P.4
Animal tanks ~ Sea World's Salt Water... Chemical Corner	Issue11, P.2
Area ~ Know You Pool Series: Area Rules!	Issue 24, P. 1
Automation and ORP ~ ORP and Oxidation Part I Vol II/4	Issue 5, P. 3
Automation inaccuracies ~ Case Study (Total Alkalinity)	Issue 1, P. 3
Automation ~ Controller Concepts I, Tech Talk (feeder sizing)	Issue 13, P.3
Automation ~ Controller Concepts II, Tech Talk (sample streams)	Issue 14, P.3
Automation ~ Controller Concepts III, (What's worth controlling?)	Issue 15, P.4
Automation ~ Controller Concepts IV, Precision in ORP Control...	Issue 16, P.4
Automation ~ Controller Concepts V, Most Important Alarm...Time Based	Issue 26, P.2
Automation ~ Controller Concepts VI, Don't mess with calibration	Issue 29, P.6
Automation ~ Controller Concepts VIi, PPM or ORP, or both?	Issue 30, P.4
Basics, explaining chloramines ~ Back to Basics	Issue 30, P.6
Bromine ~ Challenge w/ BCDMH/Ozone Apps, Chem Corner II	Issue 14, P.4
Bromine ~ Sea World's Salt Water... Chemical Corner	Issue 11, P.2
Bromine ~ Las Vegas Hotel Boasts... News Notes	Issue 1, P.1
Calcium ~ Calcium, Calcium Everywhere...Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 17, P.2
Calcuim Hypo Hard to Find ~ Quarantined? Curious Quarantine	Issue 28, P.4
Calculations ~ Precision, Accuracy and Absurdity Vol II/4	Issue 5, P. 1
Calculations ~ Heater cost calcs.; Back to Basics	Issue 10, P.4
Calculations ~ Total dynamic head calcs.; Back to Basics	Issue 9, P.5
Chemistry ~ Alkali, Alkaline, Alkalinity Wolf's Wisdom	Issue21, P. 3
Chloramine ~ Canary Fish… Chloramine distribution, Chem Cor.	Issue 14,P.1
Chloramine ~ Sump Story	Issue 8, P. 7
Chloramine ~ The Basics of Superchlorination	Issue 9, P. 2
Chlorine Chemistry Council ~ Fun New Stuff Available!	Issue 28, P.6
Chlorine Gas is Back (in England)	Issue 11, P.4
Circulation/turnovers ~ Pumprooms Get Bigger...Tech Talk	Issue 11, P.7
Cloudy Water ~ Cal Hypo Causes Cloudy Water? Chemical Corner	Issue 15, P.8
CO₂ ~ Carbon Dioxide, All it's Gassed up to be?	Issue 3, P. 2
Corrections ~ Free Available Chlorine Isn't	Issue 9, P.7
Corrections ~ CYA/TA Correction - Math Overkill	Issue 11, P.3
Corrections ~ CSI ain't LSI - wrong title abbreviations	Issue 30, P. 6
CSI Flaws and Fallacies ~ Tech Talk; Errors and failures in CSI Calcs	Issue 26, P. 5
Cyanuric acid ~ A True-Life Tale; Indoor use...	Issue 7, P. 7
Cyanuric acid ~ Cyanuric Acid, Benefactor or Bomb Part I	Issue 7, P. 3
Cyanuric acid ~ Cyanuric Acid, Benefactor or Bomb Part II	Issue 8, P. 3
Cyanuric acid ~ Should CYA Limits be Raised?	Issue 16. P 5
CYA/Total Alkalinity Correction Mathematical Overkill	Issue 11, P.3
Dechlorination ~ Chembits	Issue 8, P. 7
Design ~ Designing from the Pits Up; Design Department	Issue 12, P.6
Electrical ~ Back to Basics,Wiring of 3-phase pumps	Issue 14, P.7
Electrical ~ Back to Basics, ohms Law Applied	Issue 16, P.9
Electrical ~ Tech Talk, Pool Shock Hazards, tests, course	Issue 16, P.6
Energy ~ How Pool Covers Save Energy; Tech Talk	Issue 15, P.6
Energy ~ Liquid Pool Covers Save Energy; Tech Talk (product review)	Issue 25, P.5
Eye irritation ~ Queries & Quandaries	Issue 7, P.6
Fecal accidents ~ Cryptosporidium Update	Issue 6, P.1
Fecal Accidents ~ Fecal Water Balance?	Issue 4, P.1
Fecal Contamination ~ The Dreaded E.Coli Bacterium (PrP Extra)	Summer '98
Fiberglass ~ Swimming Pool Interior Lining	Issue 19, P.1
Filter Rate: The Fast and the Slow of It; Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 18, P.2
Filtration ~ Soda-Bottle Sand; Glass sand research	Issue 17, P.1
Filtration ~ When Do You Change Filter Sand; Tech Talk	Issue 17. P.3
Filtration ~ Facts, Fallacies, and the Future	Issue 18, P.1
Gas Chlorine ~ Chlorine Gas is Back (in England)	Issue 11, P.4
Green Hair ~ Why That Turquoise Hair? Chemical Corner	Issue 19, P.3
Green Water ~ Why is my pool Water Green? Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 29, P.5
Heater Calculations ~ Back to Basics	Issue 10, P.4
Hydraulics/plumbing ~ Quick Quiz; Upgrading	Issue 3, P.4
Hydraulics; total dynamic head ~ Back to Basics	Issue 9, P.5
Hydraulics ~ Problem solving Back to Basics	Issue 12, P.7
Hydraulics ~ "Turnover" Technicality (Gage & Bidwell)	Issue 13, P.7
Internet; PPOA is on the Net	Issue 11, P.1
Leaks ~ Infra-Red Detecting of Spa Leaks...	Issue 5, P.4
Maintenance logic ~ Back to Basics	Issue 13, P.6
Maintenance challenge ~ Dog Day Afternoon; Lead	Issue 26, P. 1
Make-up Water ~ A Radical Change in ... Sump Story	Issue 21, P. 2
Mysteries ~ Gas-heater flameout; Mystery Maker	Issue 30, P. 3
New pool ~ Ready for Swimmers? Pool Puzzle	Issue 5, P.3
ORP ~ ORP and Oxidation	Issue 5, P.3
ORP ~ ORP, Part II	Issue 6, P. 3
ORP ~ ORP and State Codes	Issue 9, P.8
Ozone, The Miracle Water Clarifier, Sump Story	Issue 18, P.3
Ozone use in Hong Kong ~ Perfect, expensive water	Issue 13, P.1
Ozone/bromine ~ Challenge w/ BCDMH/Ozone Apps, Chem C.II	Issue 14, P.4
Ozone/bromine ~ Las Vegas Hotel Boasts New...Technique	Issue 1, P. 1
pH ~ Chembits; Assigned pH values often aren't true...	Issue 7, P.7
pH ~ Sup Story, Don't Mess with Mother Nature	Issue 28, P.2
pH ~ Tech Talk; Philosophy against assigning "ideal" values	Issue 20, P.1
pH Ain't pH... ~ Numbers May Vary, Some Don't Exist; Chemical Corner	Issue 29, P.3
Plaster ~ Why Does Plaster Fail? Tech Talk	Issue 22, P. 1
Pool Service ~ Tailgate Talk a servicewoman's soap trick	Issue 15, P.7
Pool Covers or Blankets ~ How Pool Covers Save Energy; Tech Talk	Issue 15, P.6
Pumps ~ Pump Power Platitudes, (power vs. flow) Tech Talk	Issue 19, P.7
Pumps ~ VFDs and the Boss ~ Pool Puzzle (Hydraulics in filters)	Issue 25, P.2
Pumps Metering ~ A Necessity, or Is Another "Solution" Available?	Issue 27, P.6
Ryznar Index ~ A New and Better Way? Tech Talk	Issue 29, P.4
Solar Evaluation ~ Solar Secrets - PrP Extra Spring 1996	Issue 9.5/x.6
Solar Heat, Solar Power, Heat Keepers (pool covers) ~ Solar Guidelines	Issue 30, P.1
Stainless Steel ~ Stainless Stell Isn't Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 22, P.2
Superchlorination ~ Beyond Superchlorination...	Issue 9, P.6
Superchlorination ~ The Basics of Breakpoint Chlorination	Issue 9, P.2
Superchlorination ~ Canary Fish… Chloramine distribution, Chemical Corner	Issue 14, P.1
Superchlorination ~ Superchlorination Follow-up; Chemical Corner	Issue 10, P.3
Superchlorination ~ Shocking Bromine Pools, Chemical Corner	Issue 13, P.4
Surge pit hydraulics ~ Surge Pits Are The Pits	Issue 2, P. 3
TDS ~ What's all this Fuss over Total Dissolved Solids?	Issue 1, P. 2
Terminology ~ Chembits; Free Available Chlorine Isn't!	Issue 9, P. 7
Terminology ~ Wolf's Wisdom; All About Rates	Issue 25, P.3
Test Kit, High Residual Bleaching ~ Sump Story	Issue 1, P. 3
Test Kits ~ Test Kit Timing, Back to Basics	Issue 17, P.7
Test Kits Technical Review ~ Check out the Plaintest; Cover Story	Issue 23, P.1
Test Kits, Historical ~ Testing Time Table Kits from 1943 to 1996	Issue 23, P.4
"Thick" Water - Faster or Slower for Swimming	Issue 27, P.1
Total Alkalinity ~ Wolf's Wisdom; What is Total Alkalinity? (Part 1)	Issue 23, P.5
Total Alkalinity ~ Wolf's Wisdom; What is Total Alkalinity? (Part 2)	Issue 24, P.5
Turbidity ~ Pool Water Turbidity	Issue 10, P.2
Turbidity ~ Turbidity Management, Controller Concepts	Issue 17, P.6
Variable Frequency Drives - Tale of Two Operators; Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 28, P.5
Volume ~ Back to Basics; An Important (first) Inch (see also Area)	Issue 24, P.2
Water Chemistry ~ The Twelve Most Common Myths (Lead)	Issue 28, P.1
Water Chemistry ~ Why is My Pool Water Green; Wolf's Wisdom	Issue 29, P.5
Water chemistry ~ Wolf's Wonders of Water, Chemical Corner	Issue 18, P.4
Water chemistry ~ Wolf's Wisdom; More About Water, general chem	Issue 20, P.2
Water clarity ~ A Clear-Water Case Study	Issue 8, P.6
Winterizing ~ Tech Talk; Winter's Coming!	Issue 4, P. 4
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Safety
Apnia ~ Freediving, Apnia and... Safety Subjects by W. Hartwig	Issue 21, P.1
Chemical Handling ~ Sump Stories; switched lids	Issue 2, P.3
Chemical safety ~ Color Coding for Chemical Safety	Issue 7, P.6
Child in skimmer, Murphy's Kid	Issue 7, P.1
Chemical Mixing ~ Tower of Flame; Safety Subjects	Issue 12, P.3
Chemical Mixing ~ What Happened to Blow the Lid? Tech Talk	Issue 19, P.4
Diving injuries, correction	Issue 2, P.2
Diving injuries, starting blocks (correction in next issue)	Issue 1, P. 1
Gas Chlorine Made By Mistake, Sump Story	Issue 16, P.8
Goggles, Leaky Goggles Can Blind Swimmers	Issue 16, P.8
Googles ~ Why the Increased Usage? (Lead)	Issue 29, P.1
Lifeguard info ~ Mask/shield for resuscitation; Net News	Issue 15, P.3
MSDS ~ Wolf's Wisdom; MSDS – Are They Worth Having?	Issue 24, P.3
Power Outage ~ Rolling Blackouts close pools? Safety Subjects	Issue 22, P.1
Underwater Swimming ~ Flirtation w/ Drowning Vol II/3	Issue 3, P. 3
Suction Entrapment Action ~ New regulations sought	Issue 13, P.1
Suction Entrapment ~ Safety Subjects; Getting Your Head Stuck	Issue 24, P.4
Suction danger ~. Safety SubjectsSafety Subjects; Losing your head	Issue 24, P.4
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Management
Air Quality ~ Providing Air for Comp. Swimmers; Management	Issue 12, P.2
Child management ~ Sump Stories; urinating in the pool	Issue 7, P. 7
Computer program offered to PPOA	Issue 9, P. 1
Computers ~ Computerized Pools are Here	Issue 8, P. 2
Concessions ~ Fatten Concession Sales...	Issue 7, P. 2
Should I Get Into the Pool Service Business? ~ Tailgate Talk	Issue 26, P.4
Hong Kong Pools ~ Perfect water, inefficient management	Issue 13, P.2
Inspectors and Sanitarians; Operators ~ Trainin' Talk	Issue 25, P.4
Lighting ~ Points of Light; Management Minute	Issue 12, P. 5
Maintanence ~ Management Minute; Pool-water Care through Management	Issue 25, P.4
Organizations ~ NRPA spotlighted	Issue 3, P. 5
Organizations ~ NSPF spotlighted	Issue 4, P. 5
Pool Safety Management ~ Aquatic Audit; Management Minute	Issue 27, P.7
Regulations ~ Pool Codes, They're Everywhere	Issue 2, P. 1
Regulations ~ Pool-People Poll on health codes	Issue 2, P. 2
Training ~ (Poor graduate)...Operators who Can't Editorial	Issue 19, P. 5
Winterizing ~ Tech Talk; Winter's Coming!	Issue 4, P. 4
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Health
Accessibility ~ Pool Accessibility Research	Issue 8, P. 6
Bugs ~ Does Your Pool Have Paddlebugs?	Issue 3, P. 3
Chloroform ~ Health Habits; Swimmers Get...Dose	Issue 5, P. 3
E.Coli ~ The Dreaded...Statistical Improbability, *(PrP Extra)*	Summer '98
E.Coli ~ Cover story, E.Coli and Nauseum!	Issue 16, P.1
Eye irritation ~ See Superchlorination, Technical
Fecal accidents ~ Cryptosporidium Update	Issue 6, P.1
Fecal Accidents ~ Fecal Water Balance?	Issue 4, P.1
Cruise Ship Bug Not From Pool ~ Lead	Issue 26, P.1
Crystosporidium Daze??? ~ An Unlikely Celebration	Issue 27, P.5
Fecal Contamination ~ The Dreaded E.Coli (PrP Extra)	Summer '98
Fecal Contamination ~ Oregon's Reasonable Code and more... News Notes	Issue 16, P.1
Sanitation ~ Make Handwashing Fun, Health Habits	Issue 16, P.5
Spas ~ Getting the facts straight; Fact or Fiction?	Issue 24, P.6
Therapy ~ Aquatic Therapy - Just Add Water	Issue 9, P. 5
Water Supplies Microbiologically risky ~ Health Habits	Issue 13, P.6
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