Swimming pools and Spas

05/04/2023

Tips on Cleaning swimming pools after storms and floods!

In light of the devastating floods in New Zealand, we reprise this helpful advice from David Lloyd, pool chemical expert and founder of International Quadratics, on how to clean up and treat swimming pools after storms and floods.

19/01/2022

Pool Chemical Tips: Total hardness versus calcium hardness

Calcium levels are an important factor when balancing pool water. Without acceptable levels of calcium, water will try to balance itself by drawing calcium from the walls (in the case of concrete or plaster pools) and from grouting in tiled pools.

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04/11/2020

Tips for Reopening your Swimming Pool!🧐

Starting up your facility again can take a few days.

16/06/2020

More details on measure to be taken when restarting of swimming pools and water fountains, List of SAC accredited laboratories for Total Legionella Counts (TLC) can be found from the link below.

16/06/2020

Singapore to enter Phase 2 of reopening from Jun 19.

Attached here is the circular on the measures to be taken in preparation for swimming pools (SPs) and water fountains (WFs) which will be allowed to re-open and re-start after 18 June 2020, 2359hrs.


The National Environment Agency (NEA) would like to remind all owners/occupiers of relevant premises with SPs and WFs to conduct thorough cleaning and disinfection and ensure water samples pass the regulated limits stipulated in the Environmental Public Health (Swimming Pools) Regulations before re-opening of SPs and Environmental Public Health (Cooling Towers and Water Fountains) Regulations before re-starting of WFs. This is to ensure the SPs and WFs do not pose a public health risk, as failure to do so could result in the potential spread of Legionellosis and other water-borne diseases. You may refer to the ‘Guidelines for Managing Water Quality for Cooling Towers, Swimming Pools and Water Fountains during the Period of Heightened Safe Distancing Measures’ for more details.

The water treatment regime shall revert to the pre-Circuit Breaker period after thorough cleaning.

Please note that labs are available for testing of the regulated water quality parameters and Total Legionella Counts (TLC).

The circular can also be accessed from our webpages as below:

1) Under the section ‘Circulars on Cooling Towers and Water Fountains’
https://www.nea.gov.sg/our-services/pollution-control/water-quality/cooling-towers-and-fountains

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2) Under the section ‘Circulars on Swimming Pools’
https://www.nea.gov.sg/our-services/pollution-control/water-quality/swimming-pools

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If you need any clarification, you may contact NEA via an online feedback form on the NEA website or myENV app.

Thank you.

The National Environment Agency

30/04/2019

Do you know diatomaceous earth, why is it related to swimming pools?

For over 50 years, Celatom diatomaceous earth and CelaPerl perlite filter aids have been the worldwide choice for swimming pool & spa filtration products.

30/12/2016

World’s most costly pizza video helps pool safety message hit home.

The new pool safety campaign by Royal Life Saving has a very powerful message, wrapped in a glossy Masterchef-style video.

15/09/2016

when a water is in balance, it is said to be neither corrosive nor scale-forming. In other words: it will not deposit a layer of calcium scale neither will it dissolve an existing layer of scale.
Source: Lovibond Pool Brochure.

06/09/2016

Do you guys know testing reagent OTO may cause cancer?
Click this link to find out why

One can do better Dear Mr. Lim, REACH regulations characterise OTO (ortho-tolidene) as potentially carcinogenic. This means a significant risk to the end user when OTO is used for pool water analysis. A far better alternative is the DPD method. Click THIS LINK to read why. Do you have any ques...

16/06/2016

Do you know how to clean a swimming pool after a flood? refer to this link for more information...

Following the weekend's devastating floods and storms on the east coast of Australia, we asked Bill Mansfield, Education Officer at BioGuard, to run through the process for pool service technicians and pool owners to clean affected swimming pools.

04/11/2015

Your Dependable Partner, Unilite Chemicals.

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