You have two main options to drain or backwash your pool:
- YOUR YARD
This is a great option since it allows you to reuse water you already paid for and could reduce your landscape water use. Drain your pool or spa water to your landscape, lawn or rocky areas on your property and allow the water to percolate into the ground. Be sure to use caution when applying pool water on certain plants if it contains more salt and chlorine than tap water.
- Salt or saline pool water contains higher concentrations of salts that can be more damaging to plants and soils.
- Remember to move the drain hose frequently, since water discharge to one location can create stagnant water areas that can attract mosquitoes. Also be sure that the pool water does not flow onto your neighbor’s property.
- Source: http://www.mesaaz.gov/residents/environmental/drain-or-backwash-your-pool