Phoenix-area city offering rebates to homeowners who remove pool, spa
The city of Scottsdale is offering homeowners a rebate as high as $1,500 to remove a pool or spa from their property.
(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
PHOENIX — A swimming pool seems like a gift to those who live through a Phoenix summer.
But as anyone who owns one will tell you, they can be expensive and require a lot of upkeep.
To those homeowners, a Scottsdale rebate program to remove backyard pools or spas may come as the best gift of the year.
“The rebate is for 50 cents per square foot of surface area of the pool or spa that is removed,” Nicole Sherbert with the city of Scottsdale’s Water Department said Friday.
Sherbert said homeowners can receive as much as $1,500 from the city for removing their pool or spa.
She said it is the first rebate of its kind offered in Arizona.
“We have the most rebates for both single-family homes and businesses of any city in the Valley and we’re just always looking for ways that we can help people to be more innovative and more conscientious when it comes to water use,” she said.
There are several requirements to qualify for the rebate. To learn more, head to Scottsdale’s rebate website.
KTAR’s Jeremy Foster contributed to this report.
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How much can one expect to pay to remove a pool? I've heard costs can be has high as the cost of installing the thing. True, false? And how much will you lose (if anything) in the devaluation of your property value? Will your property taxes be adjusted? How's about some reporting here, folks?
Semi-automatic pools are the worst, with the high capacity xenophobic cabana boys. Double plus good the government wants to get rid of them.
Most people who don't want pools, will buy a house without one, and those who do, will buy with one. I cannot see people jumping to go spend a ton of money now to save $1500 and remove the pool. Can the "reporting" follow up in one year and tell us how many were removed, what costs to the city in addition to the rebate - like the time of manhours to process each, the cost to enact and pass this measure, etc and approzimate gallons of water saved (evaporation of water, or any splashed out is real savings of water, as you aren't filling a whole pool everyday)