West Campus · North University · Hemphill Park
Pool service in West Campus
Sullivan’s covers West Campus, North University and Hemphill Park. Most of the water here is on student housing: courtyard and rooftop decks with a bather load unlike anywhere else in the city, concentrated into short heavy bursts rather than spread across a week. Chlorine demand and filter cycles have to be set for the building and its calendar, not for its gallons.
- North University
- Hemphill Park
The ground under West Campus
Dense blocks, almost no open ground, and decks that take a whole building's bather load at once.
Blackland Prairie clay, east of the Balcones Escarpment. The survey maps Eckrant here.
The ground the series mapped across each ZIP
- 1.5
- 3.2
- 4.4
- 5.1
- 6.0
- 7.5
Source: USDA NRCS Soil Survey (SSURGO), Travis County TX453, via Soil Data Access.
The canopy street trees the city has inventoried
- Live oak
- Cedar elm
- Other oak
- Pecan
- Crape myrtle
- Juniper (cedar)
- Everything else
Source: City of Austin Tree Inventory (data.austintexas.gov).
What we see in West Campus
Student-housing decks, where the bather load arrives all at once.
The ground under West Campus
Deep expansive clay that swells and shrinks with the season. It moves coping, decking and buried plumbing, so a slow loss of water here is worth investigating rather than topping up.
The USDA soil survey maps Eckrant across 78705: rock at 20 cm, shrink–swell 4.4. It is the color this ZIP carries on the map above.
Neighborhoods we cover here
Each of these has its own page — the ground, the lot sizes and the trees change street to street, and so does what your pool needs.
126 of the 187 permitted pools in West Campus are commercial rather than residential. If you look after an apartment deck, an HOA amenity pool or hotel water here, see commercial pool service.
Services we run here
West Campus — questions people ask
Do you service pools in West Campus, Austin?
Yes. West Campus is one of the areas Sullivan’s Pool Service covers, and our routes already run through it — West Campus, North University, Hemphill Park and the streets around them, on a weekly schedule. Because your pool sits on a fixed route with a technician assigned to it, we can usually come back the same week when something breaks.
What should I expect from a pool in West Campus?
Student-housing decks, where the bather load arrives all at once. Age is the single best predictor of what any pool needs: under about ten years it is mostly chemistry and cleaning, and past fifteen the pump, heater, salt cell and plaster all start coming due one after another. Knowing which of those is closest is most of what a good weekly service gives you.
What ground is West Campus built on, and why does it matter for a pool?
Blackland Prairie clay, east of the Balcones Escarpment. Deep expansive clay that swells and shrinks with the season. It moves coping, decking and buried plumbing, so a slow loss of water here is worth investigating rather than topping up.
Pool service in West Campus?
We are in West Campus most weeks. Tell us the pool and we will quote it.