I recently got a pool filled in in my backyard. The Contractor cut three large holes (3×3') in the bottom of the pool before filling it. This is the first heavy rain of the season and I see a lot of water logging in the area where the pool was demolished and filled. In the demolition process, the Entire side wall / shell of the pool was intact because it was connected to the patio.
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What is the best way to fix this water logging problem now?
Best Answer
I'm personally suspecting "what the contractor filled the pool with" more than I am "the size of the holes in the bottom." Or it may be that the holes in the bottom do no good to speak of if the underlying soil does not drain particularly well (ie, solid clay, a condition I'm all too familiar with.)
As such, trench and install drainage pipes, rock fill and filter fabric. If the fill itself is clay-soil-based and does not drain, you might be able to do this to lead water in the pool area to the drain-hole areas (make dry wells over them.) That would have been much cheaper and easier to do as the pool was being filled in - shame on your contractor for not doing that as a matter of course, and/or for using clay-mud-fill, if that is the case as it looks to be.
If the soil under the pool is clay that won't drain you may need to punch a hole (through the side of the pool) to run a pipe to somewhere the water can drain.