Unexplained water loss

[waste]

Welcome to The Forum!

I'm thinking that you don't have a leak. What i suspect is that the water on the cover and the block of ice in the pool are pushing pool water out (I might be able to guess where if I knew more about your set up).

Your experience from last year verifies that the pool isn't leaking - or, at least wasn't last year when the same thing happened.

What I suggest is to measure down to the water level and keep note of how far down the water was upon opening. Then go ahead and refill the pool and double check for a leak with the bucket test. If the bucket test shows a leak, you already know approximately how deep the leak should be.

[JimK]

Welcome to The Forum!

I'm thinking that you don't have a leak. What i suspect is that the water on the cover and the block of ice in the pool are pushing pool water out (I might be able to guess where if I knew more about your set up).

Your experience from last year verifies that the pool isn't leaking - or, at least wasn't last year when the same thing happened....

I was thinking the same thing and had a similar experience a couple years ago. We had a couple of bad storms back to back in the fall that dumped alot of rain (12+ inches) after the pool had been closed for the winter. The water that accumulated on the cover displaced the water in the pool. I didn't realize this had happened until I took the cover off in the spring, but I figured it out when I refilled the pool and there were no leaks.

[smirnoff]

Hi there thanks for all the answers. To add more complexity to the issue, I seem to be losing way more water than what would be displaced from the cover. Reason being I lose so much water over the winter that my tarp (which was sitting on top of the water in the fall) completely rips (second tarp in so many years) from the pressure of the snow and where the water is now sitting in the pool. So now I don't have any water on the tarp and my water level is about 2 feet below where I closed the pool.