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Summer of green pools? Chlorine shortage set to kick in Eli Golde Special to The Sun Pool owners should prepare for a significant hike in pool cleaning prices due to a nationwide chlorine shortage exacerbated by the pandemic. When National Pool Opening Day arrives on April 24, pool water chemistry expert Rudy Stankowitz expects there to be a run on chlorine tablets.
Stankowitz suggests that pool owners only buy what they need for the season. For most, that will be only a single bucket of chlorine tablets.
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With people locked down in their homes instead of going on vacations, pools saw more use in than in any other year, according to Stankowitz. These strains to meet the record high demand were compounded when a An Expensive Dinner Short Story plant, one of the largest chlorine manufacturing facilities in the country, burned down after Hurricane Laura ripped through Louisiana in August The disaster resulted in a loss of an estimated tons of pool chlorine.
The blaze broke out just two weeks before Labor Day weekend, when most pools close down for the year, so the full impact of the loss was not immediately apparent.
Granular chlorine is used to shock pools with low levels or no level of chlorine present to bring them up to standard. Race has not yet increased pool service prices for his customers, though he is preparing them for a price Dinnfr. Mia Bagby, an event planner for Varisty Brands and a Gainesville pool owner, was completely unaware of the chlorine shortage.
Pinch A Penny, one of the largest pool store chains in the United States, has experienced price increases. The store has not had any issues getting the chlorine tablets, though it is clear others have. Stankowitz said the chlorine shortage could Stoy into panic buying of other pool sanitizers as chlorine supplies run low.
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Stankowitz owns Aquatic Facility Training and Consultants. In addition to his work for PoolPro magazine Stankowitz is a published author. It's kind of hard to sort through when you're panicking searching for chlorine.]
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