Pool, Spa & Water Feature Maintenance

If your pool water is chemical free, you can discharge it into the storm drain.  Chlorine naturally dissipates over time, and if you do not add chemicals to the water for 5 to 7 days, your pool will be free of chlorine and ready to drain.

In order to drain your pool into the storm water system, the water MUST:

• Not contain any vegetation or debris
• Be dechlorinated and test less than one part of million (ppm) chlorine
• Have an acceptable pH of 7-8.
• Contain no algae or greenish color
• Contain no hydrogen peroxide based products
• Flow at a rate that will not cause any flooding or erosion problems

It’s best to clean your pool’s filter over a lawn, planter box, vegetated hillside, or another surface that absorbs liquids. Collect pool debris on a filter cloth and then discard the cloth in the trash. It is illegal to dump discharge from backwashing or acid cleaning into the stormwater drainage system.  Instead, drain discharge into the sanitary sewer system through a legal sewer connection; however, all back wash fluid must have a pH between 5 and 12.5 before it can be discharged into the sewer system.