Should I be worried about this non-stop rain when AGP hasn't been backfilled yet?

[Jacob99]

I'm a little concerned with our weather. I swear since this pool went up, we've had maybe one day without rain. It's rained all last week, and raining all this week, it's suppose to finally break tomorrow afternoon. The pool hasn't been backfilled around because I'm waiting on my electrician to ground/bond the pool which he hasn't been able to do because of the weather. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks that the pool has been up. All the uprights are on those large patio type blocks, but there are puddles of water all around the pool. Walking around it, the ground is really soft and muddy, although the patio blocks under the uprights seem to be okay still, but 2 of them are under water as I type this. Do I need to be concerned about my pool sinking into the ground? I know they compacted the ground really well below the patio blocks, but this is bad right?

[AnnaK]

There is little you can do until the rain stops. If the sand bed under the liner isn't visibly washing out you're probably okay. But at this point, you can't know until the rainwater has drained away.

Here's a bit of a horror story: Our AGP is set up against a hillside. Just as it had been filled the rains came, and I mean downpours of such magnitude that we couldn't see the neighbor's house across the road. Water came gushing down the hill and washed out most of the sand. The builder had to drain the pool, remove the liner, add sand and regrade it and basically start all over again. That time he got proactive and installed a . . . hm, now I forgot what it's called . . . a 4" diameter black flexible pipe with holes in it around the back of the pool by the hill, and then packed dirt up against the pool with an upward slope. We haven't had such a rain since, in 7 years, but if we did, in theory the water would be diverted away from the pool and any that soaks in would get into the black pipe.

The ground where the uprights sit on the blocks should also have been compacted; in all likelihood you're okay.

[BigDave]

Two are under water but the others aren't? Are they close? The patio block should be level and the water (if it's the same body of water) should cover them at the same time.

[Jacob99]

The pool is leveled but the yard slopes. It dried up (or is drying up). Finally a break, today is in the 60's, and Fri, Sat, and Sunday look good and we should hit 70's. Going to try to get everything done asap. That 4" black flexible pipe is genius! I know what you're talking about but don't know what it's called either.

[BigDave]

Maybe drain tile? IDK They sell some with filter material around it to keep the dirt out of the pipe.