Here are some useful tips for preparing your swimming pool before a storm and taking care of it after the storm.

Extensive work remains to restore clean water access for North Carolina communities hit hard by Helene two weeks ago.

You should regularly chlorinate your pool, keeping the pH level between 7.2 and 7.8. This should be tested regularly to ...

Federal investigators also described the inherent danger of BioLab’s operations: storing large amounts of chemicals used to chlorinate pools and spas. One of BioLab’s main products is a ...

Narrow down the source of the problem by checking the cold and hot water supply at each of the faucets throughout the home.

Flooding from Hurricane Helene may have contaminated private wells for thousands of people in western North Carolina, and ...

MANITOWOC – The first reported human case of West Nile virus in Manitowoc County this year was confirmed by the county Health ...

“And the operators are kind of left just trying to chlorinate that bacteria before it goes into the streams.” At a water distribution site in Asheville’s Pack Square, a steady stream of ...

∎ If you have a pool, the pump and filter will not work until power is restored. Super-chlorinate the pool now and buy many jugs of chlorine for use later. If you can get that pool cleaned up ...

Change water in birdbaths and pet dishes every three days. Clean and chlorinate pools, hot tubs, and saunas, and drain pool ...

Then we could translate this information over to the water drinking utilities, so that they would know exactly where they needed to either send a truck to clean water or chlorinate the system.

Change the water in bird baths and pet dishes at least every three days. Clean and chlorinate swimming pools, outdoor saunas and hot tubs; drain water from pool covers. Trim or mow tall grass ...