On 27 Jun 2003 23:00:52 GMT, (Mpb58) wrote:

my neighbor installed an inground pool close to my back property. I have lost
a flowering plum, and an evergreen so far, and now a lilac bush. could the
fumes from their chlorine be doing this?

I don't think the fumes would bother anything. The chlorine is
possible, but the most toxic thing in the pool is probably the
algaecides. [Though a pool owner could mix up some pretty acid water
with a slight slip of the muriatic acid jug.]

I backwash my pool into a gravel filled 'pond' about 3 feet in
diameter & 1ft deep. It runs off & into the lawn[which seems to
thrive on algaecide], and about 4 feet away, downhill is a very
healthy lilac. The pool hasn't affected it in 10 yrs.

You might ask your neighbor where his backwash goes, but unless these
trees were all right on your property line, I would be looking harder
for a 'natural' cause.

Describe how they died. How long did it take. Did they go a branch
at a time, or all at once. Are the three in a row? What's next in
the row? How does it look?

Jim