Can a vegetable garden be watered with backwash water from a swimming pool?

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My husband was backwashing the swimming pool and I saw tons of water being wasted. I hate wasting water so I ran over and diverted that backwash chlorinated swimming pool water to my vegetable garden. It worked really well....until I thought it through.

Now I'm worried.
1) Are my vegetable plants going to die tomorrow due to chlorine poisoning?
2) If the plants live, are the vegetables going to be contaminated? I soaked it again immediately with pure water from the garden hose to dilute the chlorine.
3) If it's NOT ok to water the vegetables with this chlorinated water, then is it okay to use it on the lawn or the flower beds?

Is there any intelligent advice or knowledge out there?
 
yes
plants do die from clorine
any plants die from it
so i intend that u dont use it
 
If the backwash is coming from the pool, then only if the chlorene is at a good low level (lower than it should be as a pool) can a blanket, no it won't harm your plants, because it wall almost certainly harm some plants. You might check and see how much damage has been done and try taking some buckets of water and checking on areas of your lawn and selected plants you keep track of. You can be almost certain that the plants are not contaminated (if they don't die) because the chlorine content is going to be wiped out almost immediately. If you are chlorinating with salts rather than pool shock (HCl) or equivalent, the other half of the salt might be a thing to check on.
 
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