| Visitor Comments: I have considerable experience with filling in a swimming pool with dirt. We simply knocked the bottom out, and filled it. But my pool was about 1/3 the size of many home pools, and I doubt it took more than 5 yards of dirt to fill it to the top. The contractor and his two helpers merely wheelbarrowed the dirt from my front yard and filled the thing.
I have been very happy with the drainage in my filled-in pool. There's a little maintenance. After two or three years, I had to put a little more dirt in, because of sinking and run-off, but no big deal.
The space continues to evolve -- where it once held perennials, now it's a vegetable garden!
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