Am currently filling my 10-foot metal-frame pool, which arrived recently. I'm using a 5/8" Garden Hose. It will take hours! The picture is of a previous 10-foot pool; I also had a 12-foot and a 14-foot. 12-foot also shown. Since I'm the only user, a 10-foot is plenty big for me to navigate and enjoy my Rum & Coke! Hal
This is the water management system for my 10 ft. diameter, 2 ft. deep pool, containing 1200 gallons of water, at 9600 pounds or nearly 5 tons . The pump has a 1500 GPH capacity and used 1.5" hoses. The pool came with a 330 GPH pump (which I'm not using) and uses 1.25" hoses. The big pump circulates 4.5 times as much water as the smaller pump, meaning it will change the pool water 4.5 times faster. Hal
Of the 4 above-ground pools I've used, my little friend Beth...I've never sold one. I just threw 'em away! Howell
So do you get a break on your water bill if you report that you're filling a pool? I believe some jurisdictions include a sewage fee that gets waived since filling a pool does not return in the municipal system to be treated. Here in the country, with everyone being on wells, people with pools have the water trucked in. Heck, lots of the folks here capture rain water for their veggie gardens rather than stress their aquifer. They use their tractors to haul the filled containers to their gardens at the beginning of growing season, then back to their point-of-capture for the rest of the year.
I doubt that Hal's 1200 gallons will make a "ripple on his pond" as far as water billing. Here locally, you can get the sewer charge exempted when filling a pool. In some areas the Fire Department will fill the pool. We built our pool in 1996 and it was never emptied until 2010 or so when we had it replastered. It gets rainwater or the occasional top-off from city water during really hot, dry weeks. My farming family in south GA uses a bunch of ponds (man-made) scattered around the properties for watering crops. There are also some wells for irrigation. My father had a really nice pond behind his house that was fed by a spring.
Never heard of such a thing! I just drop a garden hose in the pool and let it run until it's full...no biggie! Hal