Cost of Water

[swreeder]

Hi All,

Having the liner replaced in my IG this spring and was shocked at the cost of water.

We are on a well, and there is no way I am going to attemp to fill 26K gallons from it.

So we are left to have water delivered. Best price we have found is 50 dollars per 1000 Gallons!!!!

I've checked with local fire companies and municipalities for alternative, but they no longer do this because of liability issues.

Does this seem resonable or am I just out of my mind on what water costs?

Scott

[catnip]

What's the reason for not using the well to fill the pool? I have a similar setup in NW Florida and it's way cheaper to pay the electric bill to pump well water than the water/sewer bill to use city water. It will probably take a bit longer to fill from the well than having water hauled in but I would guess no more than a few days total to fill.

[swreeder]

What's the reason for not using the well to fill the pool? I have a similar setup in NW Florida and it's way cheaper to pay the electric bill to pump well water than the water/sewer bill to use city water. It will probably take a bit longer to fill from the well than having water hauled in but I would guess no more than a few days total to fill.
We only have well water at our house. There have been two wells that have gone dry in the neighbor hood this past year. Also the neighbor down the street tried to fill his pool from the well and killed the pump.

I called a well drilling company in the area and they advised against it. The estimated for a house of 4 we consume around a max of 400 gallons per day. So they said we would pump more in two / three days than we would in two months normally. Said pump is not setup to run that constant and we could severely dent our water table.

I guess I am just not willing to risk my well to fill the pool.

Scott

[catnip]

Now I understand; I, too, would not want to risk my household water source! Fortunately, in our case, there seems to be plenty of well water available, and we use it every day for irrigation of the lawn.

[cleancloths]

Wonder what it would cost to rent an empty tanker, pump the water into it while replacing the liner then dump it back into the pool - might be less than the $1,300 for buying new water.

[towney]

Check with your local water company for they might not charge you for sewer cost, just the water when filling a new pool. My PB gave me a letter stating my fill date and the amount of gallons used to fill. I took it to my water company and was not charged for the sewer portion on that bill. Saved me a boat load on my water bill. If your using a PB to install your liner check with them.

[swreeder]

Tanker only holds 6K of water, so I would need 5 of them to get all the old water out.

Also, to drive this you need a CDL.

The 1300 is basically paying for the cost of the truck, driver and delivery...and a little for the water.

[swreeder]

Also,

I live in the country (about 60 miles nw of philadelphia) so there is no local water or sewer authority.

I have checked with the local fire departments, truckers union and township office. So far, I have found one company (same one the pool company recommends) that provides this service.


Scott

[fission7x]

...Also the neighbor down the street tried to fill his pool from the well and killed the pump. ...

I did this too, only to find out I just tripped the overloads in the pump control box. I had inadvertently pumped my 40K gal pool down about 4 feet when I left the filter valve is waste and went to Lowes. The timer turned on the pump and, a couple of hours later, pool was way low. I turned on 4 water hoses and had them going into the pool. About an hour later, NONE of them were running. Come to find out, pump was turning on and off rather quickly as tank depressurized due to the 4 hoses. Once I figured out it was the overloads and not a burned up pump (whew), I came straight off the well head with a 1-1/4 inch PVC fitting, some 1-1/4 inch PVC pipe and my vacuuming hose and filled the pool in short order. Because I bypassed the tank, it never re-pressurized and the pump never cut off until I stopped it manually with the pressure switch. Since the pressure was going to be low due to the big open end of the hose, all I did was press fit the PVC pipe together and, it didn't leak. It pulled it back apart when I was finished and saved it for another day.

[mechaneer]

We are in PA about 100 miles west of Philadelphia . We got 14000 gallons for $700 - 800 , don't remember exactly . Made up the difference with the well , about 6 - 8k gallons . Didn't like using the well all that much either but, suffered no consequences .

[Poconos]

Just a comment about well pumps. It is the on/off cycling that kills them for two reasons. Starter circuit and the torque that is put on the pipe. If you are able to hook several hoses so the pressure never hits the cutoff point and th e pump runs continuously then that is the easiest operating mode. However you will probably stirr up a bunch of sediment and that will have to settle out and be cleaned from the pool. Also, if the well runs dry then all bets are off and you'll probably destroy the pump. My initial fill of 22K gallons approximately was from a well and I ran it for probably 18 hours or so asnd the pump never shut off.
Just my quarters worth.
Al

[brent.roberts]

If you're in a hurry ... you'll have to cough up a hundred bucks an hour or so for the truck ... multiple trips ... as you've discovered.

If you're not in a hurry, fill from the well 15 minutes an hour or so. If you start to suck air .. switch back to plan A above.

We can fill our 16x32 from the well in two days like this.
Beats watching grass grow because every few inches you see it go up, you can think that you just save a hundred bucks.

[MarkC]

To bad you were not ready during the last storm we had. I'll bet with 6" of rain and the roof gutters diverted to your pool you could have filled it that way.