Above ground 30'x54" and moat prob

[Agirlofaith]

Hi all- new here! We bought a beautiful handme down pool, got it up the weekend and we are having some ground issue. We think we hit a spring when we dug the ground down 16" to level the land. Now we have a moat around the pool that keeps filling.

What's the best solution for this?? Husband has gone to buy a pipe with holes for drainage- will this help?? Any other ideas??

I'll try and post some pictures...

Thanks!
Wendee

 

[Agirlofaith]

http://s14.photobucket.com/user/familyof4ks/library/Mobile Uploads

 

[JohnT]

Re: Above ground moat?!?! 30'x54"

Welcome to TFP!

Your photo link is to your private album, so I can't see it.

Any chance it is a sprinkler line or something similar?

 

[Agirlofaith]

Let me know if this works!
No sprinkler systems here!!!

http://s14.photobucket.com/user/familyof4ks/slideshow/Mobile Uploads

http://s14.photobucket.com/user/familyof4ks/slideshow/Mobile Uploads

 

[zea3]

The album is still private.

 

[Agirlofaith]

Ok should work now

 

[danpik]

If you have a "downhill" side to drain it to then the drain field pipe should help. I would be concerned though, looking at this picture, that there is a spring this close to the surface and you would have not known it was there.

Is that upright on the left side crooked or is it just a photo trick?

 

[JohnT]

Was the water there before you began filling the pool?

By the way, wonderful view!

 

[zea3]

Hi, I have a few questions for you. Do you get your water from a well? Have you had a lot of rain lately? How far is the house from the pool? Do you see water bubbling up anywhere? Do you have a septic system? Did you reuse the liner or buy a new one?

 

[Agirlofaith]

Well it's been raining a bunch- so...... But that water filled up last night! Husband has a drain pipe going in to slope around to the east side.

I don't know why that support looks crocked! It isn't though!!

 

[Agirlofaith]

Re: Above ground 30'x54" and moat prob

No well water- septic is way to the north of the pool- (left), we were worried about it being the leach field but the liquid isn't slimy or dark or stinky. It has rained off and on during the past 2 weeks of us getting the ground ready. It's roughly 40 feet from the back of our deck. We used fill sand and then silt on top.

- - - Updated - - -

New liner!

 

[PAGirl]

That doesnt look like pavers or blocks under the track, what did you use?

 

[Agirlofaith]

We did use pavers and set them flush with the leveled ground- each post sits on a paver. There are 20 of them.