ICE Level getting too close! HELP

[jmjbj_h]

Hello All!

With 45-50 Deg. Temps this week so far, all the snow...on the ice...in my pool is melting rapidly. As it rose, I took some Hardness Increaser, dumped a little pile a couple of times, and made a nice little hole in the 4" ice. I bought a cheap one-way pump that attaches to garden hoses and snaked an end into the hole. I have been pumping each night, a quarter to half and that seems to equalize what has been melting each day. Thanks for all the help here. Just for a good scare, what could really happen if the pool overflows?

Joe

[doggie]

We live here in West Michigan, right along the lake. We get tons of lake effect snow each year.

Our cover is a mesh cover. We've never done anything to the pool once we've closed it. By spring, it's never been up over the edge. And we only lower the water to the bottom of the skimmer in the fall. I'm amazed that it hasn't overflowed yet, but it hasn't.

But as wasted pointed out, there is little actual water in melted snow.

Also, I would worry about dropping the level of your water under the ice. Thinking of a huge chunk/slab of ice going down just doesn't sound right. Even if it didn't shear off your inlets, it might tear your liner if your pool was off by just a tiny bit in some places. Meaning not perfectly symmetrical.

So I guess I'll have to say that if it was me, I wouldn't worry about it.