Will swimming pool salt generators harm my St. Augustine grass here in Florida? Are there steps to minimize i

Question

I have a new pool and we've been raining constantly. The pool drain has been operative allowing all the excess water to drain onto my new sod. I'm concerned it may hurt the new sod.

Answer 1

st. augustine grass is very salt tolerant.  my friend has a house on little sabine bay on pensacola beach and during hurricane ivan he had salt water 3 feet high come on his for about 24 hours or more and didn't burn any of it.

Answer 2

Salt in small quanities will create an off color in your St. Augustine, although if there is plenty of rain, it should push the sodium through the soil.

In large doses the salt will end up killing your grass.

I had the same problem here in Texas with my St. Augustine. What I did is bought a FloWell (Comes from NDS, you can buy from irrigation companies like John Deere Landscapes) and piped my drains into it. It caputrues the water and allows it to perculate subsurface.