Filling pool with Well water without running well dry

[orionman1]

Sissy,

We filled our 30,000 gallon pool from our well with no probelms. How old is the house/well? The reason I ask, is if the well is fairly new it should have no problem filling the pool with the hose(s) running full bore. In our area when a new well is put in, it (and the entire plumbing system of the house) is required to be sanitized. To do this, the well company puts chlorine into the well head, turns the pump on and distributes the heavily chlorinated water through the entire house. After 24 hours all that chlorinated water has to purged from the system, so the health dept. can test the water. To pruge the system, they turn on Every faucet in the house as well as Every hose bib simultaneously. The water then runs for 24 to 48 hours straight. I firgure if you had 2 hoses, each putting out 5 gmp, giving you a total of 10 gpm, it should take about 32 hours to fill your pool from the well. The thing you have to remember no matter which way you fill it, is that you have to keep the vaccum pump (keeping the liner against the walls) going during the fill (that is until the water level gets to about 2 feet below the top rdge of the pool). I did this with a shop vac. Or course, for about $300 (my area) for two 10,000 tanker truck loads, you can have the pool filled in about 45 minutes. Good luck.

Andy

[karrde97]

I filled my 21' AG from a 350' well. I hooked up a iron filter tube to the end of the hose and let it go. I shut it off at night because I needed to monitor it when it closer to the return/skimmer so I could cut holes. It took 3 days. I didn't have any problems with the well pump. Maybe because it's new construction. I'm on the same well as the township. If I run out of water, so do they.

[gwrace1]

We filled our 26000 gallon pool from our well. I would encourage you to pre-filter the water to remove any metals. We installed a whole house iron filter ahead of our water softener and used that water to fill the pool. It took about a week with several regenerations of the water softener and several cartridge replacments on the filter.

Our well pump is down around 300 feet and rated at 22 GPM. We wanted to use the softened water as we were planning on running a salt water pool with an SWG. It worked out really nice and we've had crystal clear water since startup in early March.

Now that we have our salt level where we want it I fill directly from the hose connection on the pump but still run the water thru a whole house iron filter before it goes into the pool. We have heavy metals in our water here in south Texas.