If possible, always drain all or a portion of your swimming pool water, including backwash, on your own personal property first. Please do not let your pool water overflow off of your own property. If only a portion of your pool water can be drained onto your property, then option #2 or #3 can be used for the remainder.

This option makes the most economic sense of reusing the clean water you've already paid for to benefit your landscape.

Your next option is to drain the pool water into your sewer clean-out located in front of your home if the following applies:

• You cannot drain all of the pool water onto your personal property
• You have a salt water pool
• You are only backwashing
• You have a polluted stagnant "green" pool
• You are discharging water after chlorine shocking or acid washing your pool

WARNING: This process is only recommended for those homes connected to the public sewer system and is not recommended for homes that are connected to septic tank systems. Septic tanks are not designed to handle these types of flows. Emptying pool water into a septic tank could result in damage and expensive repairs.

The last option is to drain your swimming pool water or backwash into the curb or gutter allowing the drainage to flow into your community's storm water retention basin with the following conditions:

• Always make sure your pool or backwash water is de-chlorinated prior to draining.
• This method should only be practiced if your street does not generally have flooding problems.
• Make sure your discharge hose is long enough to reach the curb as to prevent erosion of the soil.
• Please do not disturb or flood your neighbor's property when practicing this method.