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How much would it cost to build an Olympic sized pool in your backyard?

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Olympians compete in pools that are exactly 50 meters long. The minimum depth needed for starting blocks is three feet. Olympic heats use 8 lanes. Those are the minimum requirements to be able to call it an Olympic pool. Built outdoors in the US, inground, concrete, with a filter system in a shed, and with no extraneous features could run only a hundred thousand.

But a fast pool will be much deeper, at least 8 feet deep. Depth lessens the waves that bounce off the bottom. An Olympic pool must not have any "currents" from the filtration system that would prevent you from certifying a qualifying swim. It might have sliding bulkheads that would allow training and racing at 25 yards and 25 meters (the indoor and outdoor standards for non-Olympic competition), which also effectively doubles it to 16 lanes. It might have underwater lights, maybe some extra deep gutters to absorb waves (competitors don't like getting sloshed around in surface waves). You'll want lots of above ground lighting for evening events, maybe some stadium seating for spectators.

To hold real meets you will need at least a wing off the side for a twenty foot deep diving well or better yet an entirely separate pool just for diving with several one meter and three meter boards and five and ten meter platforms. The diving well is kept much warmer, about 86f. Divers get cold easily. They also need a hot tub kept at 104f. that holds twelve people.

The swimmers though get hot. Fast swimming is extremely strenuous. Heart rates around 200 are typical in swimming fast. The coaches will require you maintain 79.5f for training and 79.0f for racing. Deviation of .2 in either direction will get you complaints from the coaches. A very powerful filtration and heating system is necessary.

Lockerrooms, electronic scoreboard, electronic timing system (touchpads), offices, equipment storage, spectator facilities, janitorial, medical room, etc. So even with an outdoor complex you're probably looking at maybe five million.

Want to make it a seriously excellent facility that can host the NCAAs? You need to build a natatorium with an acre of deck space, weight rooms, conference rooms, industrial kitchen, huge skylights, air handling systems (you've got a building with three heated pools, yes, the hot tub has its own system and counts as a pool, you're going to have some serious HVAC), and seating for two thousand or more. You'll be lucky to squeak it out for 25 million. Want to attract the best swimmers and coaches in the world? Add another five million and make everything absolutely state-of-the-art. If you do Michael Phelps will come train at your pool and bring his private coach.

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How much does an inground pool cost?

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Depends. On what? you ask. Well, where do you live? What size? How do you want it to be configured? An inground pool in Florida is not going to cost as much as one in, say, New York City or Dallas, TX or Phoenix, AZ. A pool 50′ long and 20’ wide will cost a lot more than a 10′x10′ pool A simple square pool will be less than a pool that is irregular shaped to a custom design. And if your ground is soft and easily dug, it will be less than if your soil is rocky and you have a layer of bedrock only six or so feet down that has to be blasted out. Also, howls the water supply where you live? Again, in Phoenix, it’s liable to be pricey, possibly you can’t even build a pool there because of the water. In Florida, just dig and it will fill itself!

(Source: Quora)