So when you hear those in the industry discourage and even slander anyone who uses bleach in their pool, you may think that it is not a product that you should use.
So I am well versed in most of the chemicals that are on the market today and I have used and tested a lot of different products. My specialty has always been water chemistry as I was formally trained by an experts in the field. So I have about 15 years of practical experience in the field.
But I always loved working outdoors and so I decided to do pool service again. I took a break from the industry and did some Real Estate Investing and ran a small business for awhile. (Clorox is listed to have earned $6.1 billion in revenue for 2018.I started doing pool service when I was 16 years old back in 1988. Their 2018 shareholder report on corporate responsibility fails to mention “product safety” or how the company oversees the source material for its products. “When our salt is analyzed…our salt is indistinguishable from any other commercially saleable sources of salt,” Bogdan added.Ĭlorox hasn’t returned a request for comment. I don’t entirely disagree with that…If I didn’t have a set of data that is as bullet-proof as possible I would think differently. When asked whether he would be agreeable to labeling the product, Bogden responded “I would have no problem if that disclosure was asked of us. salt with TENORM.īogdan says any “glitch” is closely monitored and fixed to prevent dirty salt from getting on the market. “But all it takes is a little glitch in the process and you can have a dirty salt at some point,” i.e. “I would assume the TENORM would be taken out of the salt,” said Bain, who doesn’t expect the Clorox product to exceed radioactive limits. TENORM is created when naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) is released and concentrated by human activity, as is the case for wastewater produced by hydraulically fracturing shale deposits for oil and gas. TENORM is used to describe enhanced radioactivity coming from fracking wastewater. “I’d want to see some screening being done to know if Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM) is being detected,” Bain told Public Herald.
Daniel Bain, a research professor at University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Geology and Environmental Science who studies radioactivity. Given this knowledge, the Clorox pool salt packaging is not labeled to inform a consumer (There’s no screening daily or for each new shipment.) Those quarterly tests have detected radioactive compounds in the salt at levels below background conditions. The state’s exclusive agreement with Eureka ensures the salt is screened four times a year for radioactivity. To our knowledge there is no one else in North America who’s able to do that with oil and gas brines.” Jerel Bogdan, Vice President of Engineering at Eureka Resources, in an interview with Public Herald, stated Eureka’s patented system is “the only one in Pennsylvania that has proven and demonstrated to the DEP that our technology can generate dewasted water. Across Pennsylvania, DEP manages 71 WMGR123 permits, as of spring 2018, with 34 of them active in some form. In 2016, after a “torturous process,” DEP granted Eureka special permission through this permit to package the salt for commercial use. The company has operated since 2008 in Pennsylvania, currently with two treatment facilities: one in Williamsport and the Standing Stone Facility in Wysox who produces the pool salt.Įureka states the Standing Stone facility is “capable of producing clean distilled water, concentrated brine, dry sodium chloride (NaCl) salt and approximately 30% calcium chloride (CaCl)” out of water that contained carcinogens, trade-secret chemicals, heavy metals, and high levels of TENORM (technically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material).Īfter treatment, Eureka’s salt is still considered a residual waste by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (PADEP) WMGR123 permit to operate a waste facility. The bags are palleted for distributor Scotwood Industries to be sold to regional stores like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Lowes.Įureka Resources stands by their product safety, citing its own four-step patented treatment system that involves pretreatment, distillation, crystallization and dewasting. While Eureka uses Clorox packaging, and trades in Clorox products, they never deal directly with Clorox. From there, workers at the facility package the salt into Clorox bags and pallet them for shipment. The way it works is fracking wastewater gets trucked to Eureka Resources where it’s treated and turned into salt.
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