Pool Service in Thompsons, TX

Railroad stop, oil town, lake town

Thompsons became a Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe station in 1879, picked up a post office in 1888 and incorporated in 1979. Oil arrived early as well: Fort Bend County's own history names the Thompsons field, after Blueridge and Orchard, among the discoveries that started the county's oil and gas industry.

The town covers about 8.3 square miles today, and roughly 3.4 of those are water, much of it Smithers Lake, the reservoir beside the W.A. Parish Generating Station, one of the largest conventional power plants in the country. A town this small is better described by its land than by its streets, and for a pool that comes down to three things: the river, the clay and the bottomland trees.

Two floods in fifteen months

At the start of June 2016 the Brazos broke its banks in Fort Bend County, and homes in Thompsons were inundated within hours. FOX 26 reported that all but a handful of residents had left. Fifteen months later, Hurricane Harvey pushed the river to a record crest at Richmond, and the National Weather Service reported major flooding downstream as far as Rosharon, a stretch that takes in Thompsons. USGS ended its inundation maps of that 2017 flood at Thompsons.

River floodwater is different from a hard rain. It carries silt fine enough to cloud the water and coat the floor, plus whatever the current picked up on the way. Cleanup goes in a set order: power stays off at any pad that was submerged until the motor, heater and controls are inspected, solids come out before the filter is asked to handle them, and draining waits, since emptying a shell while the soil around it is still waterlogged can put the shell at risk. Pool storm cleanup follows that sequence, and green pool cleanup restores the water once the solids are out.

What bottomland clay does in a drought

The USDA describes Pledger clay as a very deep, very slowly draining soil found mainly along the lower Brazos and Colorado rivers. In dry spells it opens cracks more than a centimeter wide that reach roughly 20 to 50 inches down. Soils like it are typical of lower Brazos bottomland, though the series under any single lot can differ, and the USDA Web Soil Survey shows what is mapped at your address.

Clay that shrinks that much pulls away from concrete, then pushes back when the rain returns. Around a pool, watch for a seam opening where the deck meets the coping, a pad that has started to lean, plumbing joints weeping at the equipment, or a level that keeps falling in mild weather. Any of those is worth a look at the equipment and plumbing before a small leak turns into a large one.

Pecans, cottonwoods and your fill source

The USDA lists pecan, elm, oak, ash and cottonwood as native trees on Pledger soils, and that mix keeps a pool busy across the calendar. Cottonwood seed drifts in as white fluff and mats in skimmer baskets, oaks add catkins and pollen, and pecans drop leaves, husks and nuts in fall. Leaves left on the floor release tannins that can mark plaster brown. A weekly pool service visit empties baskets, brushes and vacuums before that happens.

Unlike most towns on our list, Thompsons has no city water quality report we can point you to, so how your home is supplied matters more than usual. If it runs on a private well, have the water tested before a fill or a big top-off.

Nine miles down FM 2759

Head almost due south from our Sugar Land office for about 9 miles and you reach Thompsons. The drive follows US 59/I-69 southwest to FM 2759 east of Richmond, then FM 2759 through Crabb into town. Every repair call opens with a diagnosis, and a weekly customer sees the same technician every week, always on the same weekday. Reach us at (832) 471-7596, weekdays 8 AM to 6 PM and Saturdays 9 AM to 2 PM.

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