Hadley - winds have picked up considerably - probably the strongest all day - and the rain has started again. The good news is we did have a break that allowed the excess water to soak in or drain off so we can be off to the races again.

Rain gauge in back yard from Wed downpour was 3"
and last night till today when I checked, it was another 4"
I live over by Bonifay

thanks for the updates

I opened mine last year with TS Debbie...and it did kill the grass along the water path it created...the grass did grow back over time with additional watering.
Looks like my pool added about 4" today. Did not have to open the valve this time.

All pools are supposed to be built with an automatic overflow outlet just for such an event.

To drain out water with chlorine and expect it not to kill the grass is wishful thinking, don't you think?

:bigbow: out of the mouth of great oz of all things natural...jimbo is right..yep dead grass

tropical storm rain totals
 

During the course of the approx 2 day storm i emptied my rain gauge twice. Once after day one was over and once after the whole thing was over and it quit raining. Heres my totals. First time i emptied it i had 2 inches in it. Second time i emptied it i had 1and 3/4 inches in it. Total for the whole event 3and 3/4 inches of rain. Like they always say the ammount you got may vary. It depends on where your located in the villages. Im in santo domingo village close to hwy 441. But this gives the out of towners who wernt here some idea .

Is the grass in TV particularly sensitive to chlorine in the water? I understand the TV irrigation water is not potable but most all areas use city water to water the grass and it contains chlorine.
If the chlorine in the pool is diluted due to the 4" of rain and the water discharged into the lawn is further diluted by the 4" of rain, would you still expect it to kill the grass? I don't have a pool, just curious growing up with city water.

:a040::a040:Pennecamp had a total of 2.90 inches.

Really, just exactly where does this info come from? My pool was built in 2008 and does not have an automatic overflow. I know of others built before and soon after ours that do not have them either.

Total rain fall for yesterday, 6/6/13 was 3.25" in Buttonwood near Fishhawk rec center.

The items you mention are additional costs associated with a pool, not necessarily built incorrectly. My pool happens to have an autofill/drain however I paid extra for it. The basic pool (most every T&D pool I've ever seen) has a gutter that buffers the pool from the house and when the water leaks over the edge it goes into the gutter and out on the lawn, which by the way is where my auto drain effluent ends up as well. As for chlorine killing grass, I've pumped thousands of gallons of water through my pump drain valve onto my lawn during pool draining operations and never saw any evidence of killing the grass. Actually seemed to perk it up.

If you spend what $20-$50,000 for a pool an auto fill is extra?
that's less than $200
An overflow is maybe $25 worth of pvc.

Sound pretty petty to be charged extra.....or worse yet not told

I never said my pool or any others were built incorrectly. My point is that as far as I know there is nothing in the Florida code that "requires" the auto lever. My contractor was T&D and when I asked them, after we bought this house, we were told the auto levers were an option not a requirement. And as I have been doing for over five years if the water level gets too high due to rain then I put out the hose by the filter and lower the water level. No big deal.

Yes it is extra, just like a regular light is $200 but a multi color LED light is $900. And $25 worth of PVC has nothing to do with the cost and labor associated with trenching and backfill, glueing and running and setting the level for the drain line.

Can you come over to my house and mow my lawn for $5? It shouldn't cost any more than that for the gas.