we have finally drained the pool completely. when we lifted it off the ground, this is what we found.
there was some mud around the perimeter, but in the middle was a circle of white grass.
and a hellacious smell. our back yard smells like manure.
to be honest, i caught of whiff of this odor this summer, while the pool was up. but now that the ground is free of obstruction we find ourselves in the presence of a full-on powerful, noxious stench.
i have no idea whether the white grass is at fault. maybe it's the mud that is stinky. perhaps something else is terribly, terribly wrong, something going on underground that i don't want to know about.
whatever it is, though, i hope it stops soon. god, it smells awful.
Posted by xta at October 28, 2005 05:24 PM | TrackBackgah!
I only hope that it has nothing to do with the pain you experienced.
Or the syphoning!
I'm sure it's just the dead grass that's been rotting underneath there.
Grass has a high nitrogen content ... just like manure. I'm willing to bet that the decaying grass under the pool was releasing a lot of nitrogen. Plus, there probably wasn't a lot of air getting to the decaying grass, and anaerobic decomposition smells a lot worse than aerobic decomposition. (I only know this from my adventures in composting.)
Posted by: Lisa B. at October 30, 2005 05:38 PM