Pool Surround Drainage Questions

[polyvue]

Thanks for the reply and suggestions.

I really wish I could go to the street, but there is no way. It would be way too costly, too much cement and walls between my back yard and front. Also, our housing track is depressed below the street that runs behind my back yard.

I like the idea of a dry well, but it has to be located in the back yard. The only spot for that would be to the right of the new area. How deep would the dry well need to be and would it be filled with crushed stone?

I also thought, why not form a cement trough, but bottomless and under that have about a foot of crushed stone and top it with a grate. This would travel the entire length of the new area rather than just the one spot of the dry well. The water would end up being more dispersed. Would this work?

You might want to guessestimate the maximum volume of water and size the well to hold half or a third of it...I haven't tried this but I would certainly try to get it deep enough (4 - 5 feet?) and add several feet of stones / rocks.

The trough might work but my thought was to get the water away from the pool and deck area. With a sustained rainfall/overflow a trough would more likely irrigate the underside of your deck and pool shell. A small amount of water would be less problematic.

[Gynot]

Thanks for the replies. It's really got me thinking. A thing to keep in mind, our soil is the sandiest/rockiest I've seen. I grew up in the East and know what clay is like, so this is literally two opposite ends of the spectrum.

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Tony