Hello,
I am new to the forum and am hoping someone here can share insights to my issue. Bought a house with an existing small spa pool with a vanishing edge and hardscape waterfall. The pool seems to be losing water, and I have noticed that after running the vanishing edge pump to pull water out of the trough/trench and pump it into the pool, a couple hours after I do that, the water level in the trough/trench has risen to the lip of the small overflow drain. I am fairly certain that water is slowing running out of the trough/trench overflow drain, after somehow finding its way out of the pool and into the lower trough/trench.
There is a autofill Jandy Levelor that senses when water level in the trough/trench is really low, and opens a valve to bring it to a proper level. It is not running in this scenario. The trench water level is somehow rising with water from the pool.
There are four check valves; 1. Filter pump, 2. Booster pump, 3. Vanishing Edge pump, and 4. Waterfall pump. They are all Jandy standard check valves and I have replaced the flapper/O-ring seal/cover for each of the four. I still have water moving from pool to trench.
Where else should I look for a gravity or siphon-fed connection between the pool and vanishing edge water trench?
I can keep the pool relatively full by running the vanishing edge to pump water into the pool and letting the Levelor refill the trench, but I don't think I should be losing water out to the overflow drain in the trench the way I do.
Thank you for your consideration and time taken to read this post!
jim
I am new to the forum and am hoping someone here can share insights to my issue. Bought a house with an existing small spa pool with a vanishing edge and hardscape waterfall. The pool seems to be losing water, and I have noticed that after running the vanishing edge pump to pull water out of the trough/trench and pump it into the pool, a couple hours after I do that, the water level in the trough/trench has risen to the lip of the small overflow drain. I am fairly certain that water is slowing running out of the trough/trench overflow drain, after somehow finding its way out of the pool and into the lower trough/trench.
There is a autofill Jandy Levelor that senses when water level in the trough/trench is really low, and opens a valve to bring it to a proper level. It is not running in this scenario. The trench water level is somehow rising with water from the pool.
There are four check valves; 1. Filter pump, 2. Booster pump, 3. Vanishing Edge pump, and 4. Waterfall pump. They are all Jandy standard check valves and I have replaced the flapper/O-ring seal/cover for each of the four. I still have water moving from pool to trench.
Where else should I look for a gravity or siphon-fed connection between the pool and vanishing edge water trench?
I can keep the pool relatively full by running the vanishing edge to pump water into the pool and letting the Levelor refill the trench, but I don't think I should be losing water out to the overflow drain in the trench the way I do.
Thank you for your consideration and time taken to read this post!
jim
