When constructing a swimming pool that runs on 25% of the water and energy needed to operate your typical pool you do not have to sacrifice beauty for sustainability or use any salt or regular chemicals. \”Our natural, freshwater pools aren\’t just planet friendly, they\’re actually people friendly,\” said Blake French of Millennium Pools in Austin, Texas.
\”I estimate only 15 minutes per week for water testing and maintenance with an auto-vacuum and auto-cover. Pool buyers looking at cartridge filtered pool (touted as environmentally friendly) should know a chemical shock is needed on a cartridge pool to turn the human skin cells into vapor and the cartridge is the worst platform to recover the pool after a thunderstorm, dirt storm, hurricane, firestorm or even a pool party,\” he added.
The cartridge filtered pool has a more frequent drain the entire pool probability as the total dissolved solids rise quicker per year than with sand, zeolite, glass or diatomaceous earth. \”ECOsmarte has hundreds of sixteen year old pools that have never been drained, a claim no cartridge filter manufacturer can make,\” said Jeremy Johnson, National Customer Service Manager for ECOsmarte based in Mpls., MN.
The use of dissolved O2 oxygen to oxidize bather oils and suntan lotions is the American green technology advantage. The platinum anode system uses 6 watts DC power and requires 6 to 10 hours of water circulation per day. \”Compared to salt, chlorination, UV or ozone we use about 1/25 the power,\” he added. Saving water and virtually eliminating chemicals depends on components only available through a select group of swimming pool builders, approximately 300 worldwide. \”Our glass filter pools back wash for five minutes once every four to six weeks and the water is reused on the landscape. No water is wasted in our natural freshwater platform,\” added Johnson.
The glass media is machined like sugar, sterilized and much harder than silica sand, the dominant filter media in the swimming pool industry since 1950. In 2006 ECOsmarte successfully switched to a 100% post consumer waste glass – a process so green and sustainable it will still be a number of years before green building experts score it correctly. The media has been certified to the NSF Standard 50 for public swimming pools by the NSF and ECOsmarte\’s Glasspack is currently scheduled for additional listing by the Water Quality Association (WQA) to drinking water standards (NSF 61).
Millennium Pools uses NASA inspired technology to generate natural oxygen and low level copper to virtually eliminate chemicals and completely eliminate the chlorine. This build platform is only slightly more expensive than the use of a zero backwash cartridge filter and a salt to chlorine generator. According to Johnson, the freshwater, natural pool has even \”wetter\” water than the widely promoted salt pool chlorine generators \”with 20,000 gallons of brine or chloride created no one should call a salt pool a natural pool. The backwash and swimmer splash alone kill all plant life near the pool,\” he pointed out. \”The cartridge filter only removes particles as small as 20 microns on its best day and human skin cells are approximately 9 microns in size, making the cartridge filter useless in removing human skin cells from the water. Humans can shed up to 1 billion skin cells every time they enter the water with very few of them removed by a cartridge.\”
There are no limitations in shape or size when it comes to the Natural Pools offered by Millennium Pools, who has become the local standard for family fun and elegance.
With today\’s web and video technology we can determine the type and style of pool a client is looking for by visiting just one or two pools versus our previous pool tour approach.
ECOsmarte is the World leader in Chemical Free Water Technology. ECOsmarte\’s Natural Swimming Pool is offered by Millennium Pools in Texas.