Pool tubing is draining excess salt water into front garden

[iteles]

We noticed last night upon arriving after a few days out of town that there was a tube draining salt water from the pool into our front garden 🤦‍♀️

We posited that this was a tube draining excess water to prevent the pool from overfilling which posits two questions:

• Why is it draining into the middle of the garden?
• Why is the pool overfilling so much given there is a regulator?

This needs to be taken up urgently with the pool people.

[iteles]

I managed to get through to the office first thing this morning and was told it would be sorted by the end of the day.
At 14h00 I called again and left another message for the boss (who never answers his mobile phone these busy summer days) and we have been speaking and I've sent him some photos.

Conclusions:

• He has confirmed that this is indeed the tube that drains excess water
• It should be connected to our drainage box in the front garden but this is one of the various things that is still to be done Finalising the pool #90
• He believes that the regulator that determines how much water to pull into the pool is currently not working properly because there is too much pressure on the incoming water
  • The solution to this is to regulate the pressure of the incoming water at the entrance to the house and he alerts that this should be looked at as it could cause other problems
  • The temporary solution is for him to come and switch off the regulator which he will come and do manually himself at the end of the day because he has no one available.

I'm not entirely convinced by the water pressure argument, but I will take it up with the plumbers just in case #96.
In the meantime, we are hoping to finalise the well water #79 plumbing soon which will be the source of the water going forward and regulated separately.

[nelsonic]

@iteles please impress upon them that salt water is killing the plants
and will mean that we need to spend more money to repair the soil when we plant new plants in that area.

[iteles]

The pool boss came and concluded that too much water had evaporated from the spa area (because we're still waiting for the cover, see #90) and the reed that regulates the water levels was malfunctioning. Nothing to do with pressure of the water coming in, so I'll delete this from #96.

It still doesn't explain where all the water that was dumped into our garden came from as the pool is apparently not connected to the mains water supply yet.

The spa filtration system has been left on permanently and will be regulated again asap, once the spa has been filled (meanwhile, @nelsonic and I made sure this happened first thing yesterday morning).

[iteles]

Mysteries resolved, the main pool is already connected to a mains supply, it's the spa area that is not.

The spa are has now been filled and the water levelling reed is back in working order. All resolved.