I called the company that did the electrical work and told them about being shocked. They sent the same guy out who, before I even got home, drove an 8 foot rod into the ground by the pump and rerouted his grounding wire from the outlet through the lug on the pump and then to the rod. I am hoping this is correct. He said bonding and grounding were the same thing. I didn't want to argue with him so I let it be. Anyway, my question is, can I run my new copper (I spent 2 days digging a trench) around the pool and back to the same rod, only using a different connecting lug? Will that work for the bonding or must it go to the pump? BTW, I am using threaded rivets and stainless steel screws to secure the lugs to the legs of the pool. I am also going to link my metal fence onto the ring as well.
Thanks for your help and advice
A ground rod shouldn’t have been necessary from my understanding.
Grounding and bonding are not the same thing. All metal objects within 6 feet of the pool, the pump, the pool shell, and the water, should all be “bonded” together and to the ring surrounding the pool. The important thing is that all of these things are connected to one another with copper. That results in all of these things being equal voltage, which prevents current from moving between one thing and another, thereby preventing a shock when touching two different things. The bonding connector on the outside of the pump is where this should connect to the pump. Nothing else should connect to that bonding lug on the outside of the pump.
The only thing that needs to be grounded is the pump itself. There should be 3 wires going to the pump from the electrical outlet, and they should all connect to the wire connectors inside the pump. The green or bare of these wires is the ground. The pump is grounded through your main house ground, because the ground wire for the outlet ultimately goes all the way back to the ground bar on the panel.
So in summary:
The bonding ring should be connected to the bonding lug on the outside of the pump. Nothing else should be connected to that bonding lug.
There should be only one ground wire, running from the outlet to the inside of the pump. If your pump is a plug-in model, this ground wire is a part of that cord/plug.
Edit: The document from my city has some decent pictures/illustrations. Starting on page 4.