Where do you drain your pool TO?

[poolnoobgrandma]

So, the floods have begun, and once again the water is almost up to the coping. Where does YOUR water go when you drain it?

 

[Dave31410]

Down my driveway into the street, then into a drainage inlet, then to a estuarial creek and eventually to the ocean.

 

[Oly]

If a few inches it goes into the yard and under the trees. If the entire pool then down the driveway then into the street with short periods around the yard. Pool draining here requires a permit and notifying flood control.

 

[mknauss]

Sewer cleanout. Don't have to notify anyone.

 

[IceShadow]

Underground. I hope to the storm sewer.....

 

[CarolineM]

Out to my 5 acre pasture.

 

[Jnet]

Out to the "back forty". An acre of tree line, actually.

 

[Divin Dave]

Out to the corner of my yard

 

[LoneWolfArcher]

I am on ten acres. I drain out towards the back of of property. I could go into one of my downspout drain tiles that drains out to the river, but I feel better about the water getting filter through the earth before hitting a natural water source.

 

[Pauls234]

This is usually such a pain for me.... I run a few hundred feet of garden hose and drain to the street for season ending lowering of the water level (~5000 gallons) and draining the winter cover a few times on the off-season. It takes some time, but not a lot of work I suppose. My neighborhood is relatively low, so my yard gets wet real fast.

I have thought for years about getting some drainage work done in my yard, or at least putting together a run of of PVC or pool hose that I could quickly set up and connect to the pump so it could at least become a more efficient operation, but I can't get myself to spend the money on the other 360 days that I am not dragging around a garden hose!

 

[MyAZPool]

A minor drain (i,e, backwash, too much rain), to the alley late at night so it is dried up by morning, so as to not inconvenience a neighbor who may be taking out the trash etc.
If I ever did have to do a major drain for some unexpected reason, like mknauss, to the sewer cleanout out front (I don't think the city or the neighbors would be very happy with me flooding the alley and the streets ). That would force me to have to rent a submersible pump and about 125' of hose.
r.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

My backwash drain off my sand filter is hard PVC.....about 6' of it which goes into the woods to a dry creek bed. Totally out of sight and out of mind.

Maddie

 

[MouseMan54]

In my city, you drain to the sewer. You have to call the city and let them know. No cost, no permit, they just want to know so they don't have too many people on the same sewer line draining at the same time.

In my city, and most of So Cal (as far as I know), you can't drain to the street/storm drain. Only Rain in the Drain as the saying goes.