Fire department water??

[seminolewind]

A friend of mine had her 40,000 inground pool filled completely with pond water. With a lot of pouring of bleach into it and balancing it properly, she had sparkling and clean pool water in less than a week, albeit with 24/7 filtering. It can be done.

[drumr]

Dennis,
I guess we got lucky, we bled the hydrant off for a few minutes and the water out was clean and clear. I think the hydrants and city water (for homes) are tied into the same lines, and the fire department comes around occasionally and bleeds the hydrants around town (not sure why), but the water was clean when they filled my pool.

[Kimrst]

In our town they go around twice a year & flush the hydrants. You don't want to be doing any white laundry those days because all the water is rusty and messy. After a few mins of running, it clears up. But I wouldn't want that rust in my pool. kimrst

[haze_1956]

I should think filling the pool with the pond water will be fine.

However, you will have to treat it with Bleach to kill all the little beasties living in it, and then filter them out, and add whatever else is required to get the chemistry right.

And you find people on the forum asking how to clear up their own, "Home-made Ponds", all the time.

My town actually has municipal water that comes out of a river, they just clean it up and sell it to us.