Understanding French Drought Restrictions: Pool Water Usage and Enforcement Understanding French Drought Restrictions: Pool Water Usage and Enforcement
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Apart from mosquitoes and setting off pool alarms that can give anyone the right???
In your opinion how many litres or gallons would an average pool need for topups.
I ask this question because there are plenty of old diesel storage tanks on LBC for free, just couple up to a down pipe…
An average 8m x 4m requiring 25mm of water is 0.8m3 I think but its late and I think thats right.
In my neck of the woods during the drought a few years ago the rule was no more new pools, no filling new pools but maintenance of levels in existing pools was OK.
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How often is this needed?
Good question, with a summer cover hardly at all. Without a cover and the canicule we have just had could be twice a week. Thankfully the odd shower of rain can often keep up. Then we have backwashing of the sand filter, conventional backwash vs my air assisted backwash which would use less than a 1/3rd of the water.
We have severe drought warnings still in place since 2023 and now even rinsing your vehicle down is severely punished by higher fines. People forget that movement on their water meters can be seen by the suppliers especially if using large amounts in one hit. New pools on this lotissement have not been filled since that time and several have accro props in place to stop the shells moving. Next door are a rule unto themselves with no cover and they just empty and fill to their heart’s content when the leaves and dust get too much, still I’m no grass so its on their head via their meter activity.