well, i cleaned most of the leaves off the cover today and added a bunch of bleach to top of winter cover......tomorrow hopefully will get the cover off! If it looks like there is algae settled on cover, I am planning to pump the "top" water under the cover and then once the level on the cover gets too low, will pump it out to the sewer.......I think I can pump most of the water into the pool though...and save a small fortune in water charges!.........lets see how it goes!