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DRAINING

As I type, the pool is being drained.

Every three years.

It takes about 12 hours.

You need a permit!

Why?

So that when people complain about flooding, the cops will know it is temporary and paid for and will tell them to stuff it.

You can only do it at night although Frank set the pump up earlier today and tested it. He started a siphon so it began draining immediately. He came to turn the pump on and thought I had turned it on. No. I had to explain siphoning to the pool man.

It will cost about 50 dollars for the new water. In summer it would cost over 100. We have sliding scale transpiration pricing. Desert.

Why do we have to pump it every three years? It gets so hard from constant levelling to cover evap that the soup gets thicker and thicker with minerals. The water is so hard we would bounce off it if we were salt ions. And that is what we use to keep the saline system of chlorination working.

None of us have bounced off the hard water. It is only the ions.

The water is going down the outer drive to the corner where that house sits right on top the flood plain. The water will pool there to about 4-5 inches before it runs out to the main street and down more hill to the bottom. The pool of water at the corner will seep down to the water table. We are giving back!

Well, it wasn't intentional but so what? Don't we get green stamps anyway?

You do not want to empty the pool after a heavy rain especially in clay soil. The pool will rise out of the ground.

It hasn't rained here that much in a long time and clay doesn't really exist here. Not in my neighborhood anyway.

End of story.

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