Drained pool and can’t get pool water for 10 days

[DossC04]

I have an above ground pool that never seems to be easy to open. This year, we pulled off the cover and the water in the pool was disgusting so we decided that we would siphon out all the water (about an inch left). We did this yesterday and today have been calling for pool water delivery as we are on a well with lots of iron so filling up with the hose is not the best idea.

I am not concerned too much about the pool collapsing as it seems like it is pretty stable. However, I am wondering what my best method for getting ready for our pool water delivery would be. We are getting a delivery 10 days from now and we are trying to figure out what we should do. My thoughts are to potentially leave it with 1” in the bottom and maybe put shock in it to keep from more growth or maybe just plan to brush it every couple days. Another thought would be to put about a foot in from our well with a hose and same idea on the shock.

I am sure there are other thoughts out there, so I am really just posing the question for any advice that can be given.

thanks and I appreciate any responses!

 

[crokett]

I would get this:

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and plumb it for a garden hose, then fill away. It will catch the sediment that holds a lot of iron. After it's full, mount that near the pool and use it for when you refill during the season. I used one and filled my pool two weeks ago in about 40 hours (17,500 gallons) spread across 5 days. I put the hose on a timer and had it run overnight. However, I had the hose connected directly to my well to bypass the house and pressure tank. A metal treatment will take care of the iron in your water. When we put our pool in several years ago I had water delivered. Before the end of the season after refilling from well water a few times I needed a metal treatment to keep the iron from reacting with the chlorine.

 

[Major_in_MS]

Any volunteer fire departments around with a tanker truck that may want to do some "tanker fill/dump" training?

 

[ajw22]

Iron Fill Water Filter - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

Use an iron filter to put a foot of water in the pool and add some liquid chlorine every day. Stir the chlorine in with your pool brush while waiting for your water truck.

 

[crokett]

Any volunteer fire departments around with a tanker truck that may want to do some "tanker fill/dump" training?

If they are like the ones around me, they get their water from ponds so you don't want it in your pool...

 

[Major_in_MS]

If they are like the ones around me, they get their water from ponds so you don't want it in your pool...

That would be bad.

When I was a rookie on the fire department, we did tanker drills by hooking the tanker up to a fire hydrant on the municipal water system with quick connects and setting up a dump tank 4 or 5 blocks over. We then timed how long it took us to fill the tanker, race to the dump tank and dump the water, and then return to the hydrant for another fill. It was a lot of fun in the summer, and we always got soaked and then went swimming in the dump tank before emptying it and folding it back up for storage.

For a pool though, they would have to be able to back the truck up right to the edge of the pool, they dump by a large valve on the back of the tank instead of a hose.

 

[crokett]

For a pool though, they would have to be able to back the truck up right to the edge of the pool, they dump by a large valve on the back of the tank instead of a hose.

When I had water delivered when I set my pool up 6 years ago the water service came with a tanker (a small one because he couldn't get the 18 wheeler in). He ran a 5" water line to the pool across the yard and pumped it in. As I recall it took 3 trips.

 

[Major_in_MS]

When I had water delivered when I set my pool up 6 years ago the water service came with a tanker (a small one because he couldn't get the 18 wheeler in). He ran a 5" water line to the pool across the yard and pumped it in. As I recall it took 3 trips.

Right, I was talking about a fire department tanker truck with a dump valve though.

 

[crokett]

Yeah, I understood. The chief of the volunteer dept here goes to my dad's church. He's the one that told me they get their water from ponds in the area.

 

[Newdude]

If they are like the ones around me, they get their water from ponds so you don't want it in your pool

If they are like the ones around me, they’d LOVE to help being well standing community members, always looking out for their neighbors, but the lawyers won’t let them do *anything* that isn’t job related. No kitten rescues from trees, pool fillings, spraying down the frozen ponds for better skating the next day, etc.

 

[crokett]

If they are like the ones around me, they’d LOVE to help being well standing community members, always looking out for their neighbors, but the lawyers won’t let them do *anything* that isn’t job related. No kitten rescues from trees, pool fillings, spraying down the frozen ponds for better skating the next day, etc.

Yeah. They're like that here too.