On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:16:27 -0700, ELGY wrote:

My daughter has a Flowmaster toilet valve mounted in the well for the
skimmer, not in the pool itself and completely out of the way.

That skimmer 1-foot diameter well seems to be the ONLY place where the
water level of the pool can be monitored without intruding into the pool
itself.

But how do you get water INTO the pool from the skimmer?