Mine doesn’t.

An auto-fill is different from an overflow device. And you're right Bogie, not all pools are built the same. Some have one, the other, or both. Or neither.

You should use one of those flat drain hoses you unroll. Roll it to your curb and drain as needed.

That’s status quo for TD. I drained to the street when I needed to replace the pool water.

By the way - the fire department will not fill ur pool. It took 24 hours of domestic water to fill out pool.

Check you skimmer. Mine has an overflow tube that feeds directly into the lanai drain system that drains into my grass. In overflow situations, there's much more water going into the drain system from the lanai surface than from the pool overflow. Any chemicals being discharged from the pool are diluted considerably from the water from the lanai surface. I've never had any damage to the grass near the discharge area.

[QUOTE=lkagele;1983182]Check you skimmer. Mine has an overflow tube that feeds directly into the lanai drain system that drains into my grass. In overflow situations, there's much more water going into the drain system from the lanai surface than from the pool overflow. Any chemicals being discharged from the pool are diluted considerably from the water from the lanai surface. I've never had any damage to the grass near the discharge area.[/QUOTE


What is your overflow level..our normal happy pool level is 1/2 way up the skimmer port.Is that where yours starts to auto drain? After todays hard rain our pool level is at the top of the skimmer port.I will research overflow and see what we have or don't have. It is a Pentair unit. Edit: had the full length of deck drain caps off a while ago to clean but didn't see any tie in...but then again i wasn't looking for it either.

[QUOTE=boxcarwilly;1983737]Yes, my drain tube is about 1/2 way up from the top of the skimmer basket.

When pool maintenance companies drain water out of a pool they don't run a hose to the nearest retention pond, they run their hose to the street so the water will go down a storm drain. But, where does the water from the storm drain go? Into the nearest retention pond, the same as all the rainwater that enters the storm drains. When the chlorine in the pool water contacts the high level of organics in the retention pond water it is immediately neutralized.

If we take the surface area of all the swimming pools in The Villages and divide it by the total surface area of The Villages property we could calculate the theoretical maximum percentage of swimming pool water overflowing into the retention ponds and the percentage by which it is raising the salt content of the ponds. We would see that the salt from the pools is diluted with quadrillions of times more rainwater. Rainwater, is essentually distilled water, but in Florida, especially in coastal areas there is some salt content in rainwater. The amount of salt in our rainwater will vary with weather conditions and these variations will totally outweigh the infinitesimally small amount of salt added from overflowing swimming pools.

Our pool is also an auto leveler. I discharges out into our back yard. Anything growing near the discharge gets killed by the salt water. I built a trench with a landscape barrier on either side that channels all the water under the fence bordering the overgrown wildlife preserve in our back yard.

To quote Mark Twain. Something like, we do not make any progress because we loose what was. For far to many they have lost MANNERS and or good taste.

assuming its a swimming pool it will have a filtration system right? You occasionally have to back wash your filter am I correct ? If so were does the water go ? When my pool gets a lot of water from heavy rain I back wash the filter which drains out the excess water