Fire department water??

[jabbajean]

Wow..you guys are quick. Thanks for all the opinions. Our well water is wonderful, but our well isn't that deep so we would run out of ater in the house..three kids so we can't afford to be with out water. We had a 10 ft intes and it drained our well. Our friends filled their pool, an inground ,with the pond water and now it is sparkling.
So, lots of food for thought.
Thanks,
JAy

[hrsdennis]

I have seen about five pools filled from a fire hydrant. The water, in all cases, had a brown rusty look to it. It would be several days before I would want to swim in it.

The last pool I set up for myself was a 15 x 30. We had a well at the time. I just took my time and filled it a few inches, a couple of times a day. It took a week or two but we never ran out of water.

The kids had a blast playing in it every day. The never cared how full it was. I even ran hoses from my filter over the pool wall and into the water to keep it clean. I also had two daughter in college at the time so my money had better uses than a water truck.

Best of luck with your pool, Dennis

[seminolewind]

A friend of mine had her 40,000 inground pool filled completely with pond water. With a lot of pouring of bleach into it and balancing it properly, she had sparkling and clean pool water in less than a week, albeit with 24/7 filtering. It can be done.

[drumr]

Dennis,
I guess we got lucky, we bled the hydrant off for a few minutes and the water out was clean and clear. I think the hydrants and city water (for homes) are tied into the same lines, and the fire department comes around occasionally and bleeds the hydrants around town (not sure why), but the water was clean when they filled my pool.

[Kimrst]

In our town they go around twice a year & flush the hydrants. You don't want to be doing any white laundry those days because all the water is rusty and messy. After a few mins of running, it clears up. But I wouldn't want that rust in my pool. kimrst

[haze_1956]

I should think filling the pool with the pond water will be fine.

However, you will have to treat it with Bleach to kill all the little beasties living in it, and then filter them out, and add whatever else is required to get the chemistry right.

And you find people on the forum asking how to clear up their own, "Home-made Ponds", all the time.

My town actually has municipal water that comes out of a river, they just clean it up and sell it to us.