New Pool, ready for Pebbletec, but should I wait??

[Intex1857]

My pool is now completed, except for the pebbletec, which the pool builder is anxious to finish (to receive final payment) We have been held up by City regs, asking to finish all new items in home prior, but those have been completed.
My question is this:

Since this is a desert property (palm springs) with a very large lot, we have not begun on the exterior landscaping, and doubt that we will for at least another year. The pool has stone decking apprix 4' to 10' around the perimeter, but the rest is desert sand/dirt at present. I am afraid that if we fill the pool now, with any desert winds, the pool will fill with blown dirt/sand, which will/can stain it.​

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Any ideas? Thoughts? The building contractor proposed laying weed screen over another 20' wide perimeter of the pool??​

Someone recommended compacting the soil around the perimeter, but sand really doesnt compabt, and putting in DG will be both expensive to put in and to take out when we need to lanscape and change contours?​

 

[bradgray]

Nothing short of a finished yard will reduce dust from getting into the pool, and even then, it won't prohibit it. Pebbletec is less likely to show stains, but more likely to trap dirt.

We are on an acre, and finished our pool first and dealt with the dirt after the pool was done. We have a decent sized pool deck, bit it might as well have not been there. The pool was thrashed repeatedly by monsoon storms within the first few weeks. As a service company owner, I figured I was immune to messes, but I almost cried every time it stormed on *my* pool and cleaned it as soon as I could take two steps forward with only one step back. (I.E. stopped trying to clean it mid-storm.)

A year later, our yard is fully landscaped and it finally reduced the dirt, but our neighbors are also on acreage and it's raw. 100% of their dust and organic debris still blows into our yard, even over a 7ft block wall. And it will do this forever, because they raise livestock.

I caved and installed an autocover on the deck. For this and other reasons.

TLDR; finishing your yard will help. But it will surprsise you how much dust will get in your pool even after your yard is done. You're better off enjoying your pool now and plan on consistently vacuuming if you're the type to obsess. And prepare yourself to have staining anyway and learn to be okay with it.

 

[AQUA~HOLICS]

If possible have the plaster crew the last trade to work in the backyard.