re: In ground pools that were flooded....how should they be treated?

Shock--3lbs per 10,000 gallons, put pump on recirculate and bypass the filter for one day. Then flock it. follow directions on the back of the flocculant bottle. let it settle out for a few days. vacuum to waste. run the hose in your pool, if you have good city water while vacuuming. Vac slowly. repeat the cycle until the pool is relatively clear, bring water sample to local pool company and balance PH, alkalinity, hardness, chlorine, etc. Should take about a week from experience

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Makes me thankful I have an above ground pool.

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We all know you have an above ground pond.

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Shock--3lbs per 10,000 gallons, put pump on recirculate and bypass the filter for one day. Then flock it. follow directions on the back of the flocculant bottle. let it settle out for a few days. vacuum to waste. run the hose in your pool, if you have good city water while vacuuming. Vac slowly. repeat the cycle until the pool is relatively clear, bring water sample to local pool company and balance PH, alkalinity, hardness, chlorine, etc. Should take about a week from experience

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This too. It's possible. Just got to look at it like having a new pool and new plaster. At least a week to get it looking decent.

Depending on how long you have to wait for shock and other chemicals, I'd check pH before doing anything. Organic compounds and shite breaking down in your pool? Can seriously frick with pH may not just be leaves and algae. You may have dead critters in there.

One gallon of bleach can equal one pound of shock too if you are strapped or are in an area where pool supplies are gone. Just add bleach in the evenings. The sun eats up the chlorine in bleach. It eats all chlorine, but especially bleach because it has no stabilizer.

You'll be amazed at the wonders $100 worth of cancer causing chemicals can do to a pool.

"Flock it" is that just a pool clarifier? Or is it more complicated?

flock is a flocculant. Basically, its alum. It drops everything that's suspended in the water column to the bottom, including some minerals, etc. I would add some algacide too.