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Swimming pool owners, left, face a sevenfold increase in the cost of chlorine tablets, top right, after a fire at the USs largest chlorine plant in Louisiana, bottom right, last year.

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sschulwitz@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Marty Skiba, owner of Al’s Pool and Spas, stacks some chlorine tablet containers on Friday. The product likely won’t stay on the shelves long, as there is a chlorine shortage in the country that could last into next year. ALPENA — Residents in Northeast Michigan who depend on chlorine to keep the water in their swimming pools and hot tubs clean may struggle to purchase the chemical, as a shortage of it is gripping the nation. Pric...

There are only two domestic manufacturers of chlorine tablets.

An increase in swimming pool use amid the pandemic and a major plant fire has led to a chlorine shortage as people prepare U.S. pools for the summer.

. “You’re going to go to your local pool store, and they’re going to be out for a day or two. It’s not going to be all gloom and doom. You just might not shock or clean or kill all of the algae as much as you want to.” Odyssey Manufacturing makes more than 40 percent of liquid chlorine sold in Florida. The shortage was exasperated last summer after a chemical plant was destroyed in a fire caused by Hurricane Laura. Louisiana-based BioLab was one of just three companies that manufactu...

. “You’re going to go to your local pool store, and they’re going to be out for a day or two. It’s not going to be all gloom and doom. You just might not shock or clean or kill all of the algae as much as you want to.” Odyssey Manufacturing makes more than 40 percent of liquid chlorine sold in Florida. The shortage was exasperated last summer after a chemical plant was destroyed in a fire caused by Hurricane Laura. Louisiana-based BioLab was one of just three companies that manufactu...

Share After British scientist Sims Woodhead used calcium chlorine to disinfect drinking water during a 1897 typhoid outbreak, experts realized it could be used as an  effective cleaning agent in pools, too. The first attempt to sterilize a pool using chlorine was at Brown University in 1910, when the 70,000-gallon Colgate Hoyt Pool was chlorinated.  Experts are calling this the worst chlorine shortage in history, with prices for a 50lb bucket jumping nearly doubling to $140 in some places. So...

Chlorine shortage threatens US swimming pool season Dan Avery For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Summer 2021 could be another bummer as a chlorine shortage threatens to spoil swimming pool season in the US. A surge in pool use last summer, due to people staying home during the coronavirus pandemic, has led to a scarcity of chlorine tablets this year. The shortage was worsened by a chemical plant fire in August that devastated one of the countrys major ...

. “You’re going to go to your local pool store, and they’re going to be out for a day or two. It’s not going to be all gloom and doom. You just might not shock or clean or kill all of the algae as much as you want to.” Odyssey Manufacturing makes more than 40 percent of liquid chlorine sold in Florida. The shortage was exasperated last summer after a chemical plant was destroyed in a fire caused by Hurricane Laura. Louisiana-based BioLab was one of just three companies that manufactu...