Commercial and Apartment Pool Resurfacing in Webster, Texas

Webster's code and inspections for resurfacing a public pool

Health inspections for apartment and hotel pools

Harris County Public Health permits and inspects public pools only in the unincorporated parts of the county. Inside Webster, the City's own Environmental Health Section inspects public swimming pools and spas, along with food businesses and child care facilities. Its pages don't publish a pool fee or inspection schedule, so ask the Section what it wants to see before a reopening date goes on the calendar.

A pool code that covers repairs

Webster has adopted the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code; its pool code section dates from Ordinance 22-06 of July 2022, and the City's list of adopted codes also names the 2021 building, residential and plumbing codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code. The City's code says the pool code sets minimum standards for the design, location, construction, repair or alterations of swimming pools, public or private. That edition also sets a lightness floor for public-pool floor and wall finishes, not less than 6.5 on the Munsell color value scale; residential pools are exempt from that section.

Permits and plan review

The City requires a building permit to build an outdoor pool, and its fee schedule lists $250 for an in-ground pool plus a plan review fee of half the permit fee, with every application made online. Whether a resurface of an existing pool needs its own permit isn't stated on any City page, so the City of Webster Building Division is the place to ask before the drain.

Draining and refilling for a resurfacing under Webster's drought plan

Webster buys its water as surface water from the City of Houston, and Houston's own declarations can move Webster's drought stage. The City entered Stage 1 of its Drought Contingency Plan on August 24, 2026, asking for voluntary cuts in non-essential water use, a list that includes filling, refilling or adding to any indoor or outdoor swimming pool (pools at industrial, research or testing facilities are excepted). The City's site still showed Stage 1 when it was read on October 4, 2026; check the current stage before a drain date is set.

Stage 2 starts when Houston declares a serious water shortage or when Webster's 5-day average use reaches 85 percent of its supply, and it prohibits those uses, pool filling among them, except as the plan otherwise provides. So the stage in force when the pool is ready to refill decides when it can go back in service.

Dechlorinating before the storm drain

Webster's storm-sewer ordinance makes it an offense to put anything but stormwater into the storm system, and dechlorinated swimming pool discharges are one of the listed defenses. The City warns that storm drains carry water untreated to Galveston Bay. State rules add, for public pools, that backwash and drain water must leave through an air gap and be treated to neutralize chemicals, filter powder and other contaminants above the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's or local discharge limits.

Fill water for the new finish

A public pool's fill and top-up water must come from a public water system and be protected against backflow by a reduced-pressure backflow preventer or an air gap. Webster's 2025 drinking water report prints no hardness figure; it lists pH 8.1, chloride 30 ppm, sulfate 48 ppm and total dissolved solids of 240 ppm, with chlorine averaging 3.04 ppm. So the National Plasterers Council's step applies: test the fill for pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness and metals, and write the numbers down.

HOA, hotel and other commercial pool work in Webster

A shared pool's resurfacing often brings other work with it: HOA and community pool resurfacing, hotel and resort pools, depth markers and safety tile, waterline tile replacement, coping repair, pool deck resurfacing and spray deck, plaster repair and leak detection. One national reserve-planning guide for HOAs suggests paying for waterline tile, coping fixes and light-niche work in the same project as the resurfacing, since the crew's setup and the drain and refill are then paid for once. No published source we found prices commercial resurfacing in Texas, and League City Pool Resurfacing gives free estimates on each job.

Next door, our pages on pool replastering in Nassau Bay and pool remodeling in Clear Lake cover the neighbors' work.

Gardentown, rice fields and the space center

James W. Webster founded the community as Gardentown in 1879 with a group of English colonists; the City's history places that first settlement northeast of today's Bay Area Boulevard and the railroad. A post office called Websterville followed by 1882, and J. W. Thompson opened the Webster post office in 1893. In 1904 a colony of Japanese farmers led by Seito and Kiyoaki Saibara settled nearby to grow rice and oranges, with 300 pounds of Shinriki seed rice brought from Japan, and a State historical marker to the Saibara family stands on NASA Road 1. Oil was found at the Webster-Friendswood oilfield in the 1930s.

Webster incorporated in 1958 and had no more than five businesses until the space center boom of 1961; its population rose from 329 in 1960 to 2,231 by 1970. The 2020 Census counted 12,499 residents, and the Census Bureau estimates 12,507 on July 1, 2025, on 6.348 square miles of land. The danger of floods slowed early building, and the City's Building Division has prepared a Repetitive Loss Area Analysis to examine repeated flooding. Today the City names aerospace and medical care as its growth industries, from Ad Astra Rocket Company, Leidos, Nanoracks and Lockheed Martin's Exploration Development Laboratory to the University of Texas Medical Branch's Clear Lake campus, opened in 2019.