PP here again. The pool company that built our pool several years ago said they pretty much only install salt-water pools these days. So most new pools are probably salt.

Anonymous wrote:Folks, one more time, salt water does not equal non chlorinated water.

Yes, but salt water pools do not irritate skin the way non-salt water pools do. My DD was so sensitive to the chemicals in pools that her arms and legs would be bright red with rash after getting out of any pool. Then she swam in my sister's salt water pool in Florida and had absolutely no reaction. I couldn't believe the difference. We now have a salt water pool that she swims in regularly and she never has any skin irritation. With the exception of when we first open the pool in the spring when we have to clean it after the winter, there are never any chemicals added to the water. Only salt.

Hands up who wants brain-eating bacteria, yay!

Folks, one more time, salt water does not equal non chlorinated water.

The pool at Onelife in Rockville is salt.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't ozone dangerous son a ground level? Need to research this one. I think I heard something.

on! on the ground level not son a ground level!
Thank you autocorrect.

Isn't ozone dangerous son a ground level? Need to research this one. I think I heard something.

DP but to elaborate on the above post:

https://chlorine.americanchemistry.com/Science-Center/Chlorine-Compound-of-the-Month-Library/Chloramines-Understanding-Pool-Smell/

"A whiff of pool water - often described as the smell of chlorine -can stir happy thoughts of summer. If strong enough, however, "pool smell" can signify a source of irritation to the eyes, lungs and skin of swimmers.

Pool smell is due, not to chlorine, but to chloramines, chemical compounds that build up in pool water when it is improperly treated. "

Sorry to break it to you but saltwater pools are really salt water generating chlorine pools. The saltwater in the pool gets run through a generator where the salt- sodium chloride- is converted to chlorine.
Most likely you are sensitive to chloromines - that is the breakdown when chlorine reacts to sweat, fecal matter, etc. That is the smell that people associate with chlorine pools and is what can irritate eyes and skin. If you smell a very strong chlorine smell when you go to the pool, it isn't really chlorine.

There’s and indoor salt water pool in mclean

Ozonated or salt water? We’re sensitive to chlorine.

Hoping there’s something in the area. Thx