Sometimes we hear concerns from people about ozone because they think it’s always “bad” or “dangerous”.  Simply not true.

The truth about ozone is that in controlled applications like in your residential swimming pool, it is one of the best things on the planet for supporting human quality of life. It is a powerful, natural sanitizer that helps to keep your pool water clean, fresh and safe for you and your children.  Plus, it allows you to reduce the use of harsh pool chemicals, saving money and hazardous waste disposal.

The other side of ozone is that it is not healthy to inhale too much of it, especially if you have a respiratory disease or disability.  It’s one thing to smell that fresh scent of ozone after lightning passes through the atmosphere, but another to have a lot of it trapped in the lower atmosphere due the exhaust fumes of fossil fuel combustion. In fact, those infamous “ozone alerts” you have heard of stem from the EPA’s regulations of ozone concentrations in metro areas.  The only way to reduce high concentrations of ozone is for people and businesses to drive less.

Ozone Makes Pools Safer

Ozone sanitation actually makes residential pools safer.  The obvious way is due to ozone’s superior effectiveness in killing microorganisms that are unhealthy for people, especially young children and elderly adults.

There are some less obvious reasons ozone improves pool safety:

It works automatically.  When your ozone system is properly installed to run on the pump cycle, it is cleaning your pool water day in and day out.  You don’t have to remember to add chlorine or test the water to know that the ozone is working.

Fewer chemicals means less potential hazard.  We were amazed at how many newspaper articles were published across the country during spring cleanup that encouraged people to take hazardous wastes, including extra pool chemicals, to the proper disposal sites.

Another benefit from fewer chemicals is the lower possibility of a chemical dosing error.  Too much chlorine is uncomfortable, and sometimes unhealthy.  We see this happening mostly in larger commercial pools or waterparks, but anytime the pool’s sanitation depends on harsh chemicals, errors like this can be made.

Ozone does not produce noxious byproducts like chlorine does.  Science shows that chlorinated pools can create chloramines and other chemical byproducts, some of which have been linked to cancer or pre-cancerous changes in skin or respiratory cells.

Ozone Pool Systems are Safe

The ozone injected into your pool by an advanced system like the ones made by DEL are safe.  When properly installed, they do not generate off-gas that could damage pool accessories or be inhaled by bathers.

Ask us more about the safety performance of DEL pool ozone systems in the Eclipse line for residential pools.