Phosphates and sudden chlorine drop | Trouble Free Pool
Jul 13, 2012· Phosphates have only the most microscopic of direct effects of chlorine activity. It has to do with algae. If phosphate is very low, algae can''t grow regardless of FC levels, so algae isn''t an issue. But at any phosphate level above very low algae can grow unless there is chlorine (or algaecide).