On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:27:16 GMT, Terry
wrote:

Nigel Molesworth wrote in
:

I've just started to get my swimming pool ready after the winter. I
was hooking out a load of leaves then spotted a pair of dead rats!

Any suggestions on the ppm level of Cl I need to make it sake?


Having asked a Microbiologist friend of mine, his answer was that HE would
never swim in the pool until it has been drained, cleaned and refilled.


Doing some googling is very unencouraging, here's a start.

http://www.le.ac.uk/biology/gat/virtualfc/weil.html

I'd empty it and power wash it down with a solution of hypochlorite
bleach.

DG