Originally Posted by
piper28
Depending on where you're at, it can be far more economical to have water delivered by a truck than to use the water from your hose. Plus of course it would take quite some time to fill a pool from a hose. Obviously this is going to depend on the size of the pool. But I'd guess for most inground pools, people are more likely to have water delivered.
(In my area, unless you have a separate meter for irrigation, your water usage is also used to compute the sewer bill. So if you don't have that separate meter, you'd end up getting hit with a pretty sizable sewer bill. (I honestly can't remember if it's legal in this area to use an irrigation-meter line to fill a pool.))
My experience with two pools over 25 years is that it takes about a day to fill a typical home size in ground pool with a hose. In my area, the water utility will waive sewage charges for pool fills and refills with the proper signed paperwork. It is against the utility rules to use the irrigation line metered water for filling pools or any other use other than feeding the built-in irrigation system. You can't even use a hose and portable sprinkler from the irrigation line.
I'm sure that in some areas it makes sense to tanker in water for a pool, but there are a LOT of pools in my part of the country and I've never heard of anybody here using anything but a garden hose to fill a pool. For people with wells, they often do need to treat for iron and other metals, for utility water, nothing other than normal balancing.