Pool resurfacing in Apopka
Apopka pipes reclaimed water for irrigation through Project ARROW, but state rules bar filling a pool from it, so a refill after resurfacing comes from the potable supply. North of town toward Rock Springs, where a 2017 sinkhole took part of a house, cracks in a deck or shell get assessed before a pool is emptied.
Apopka’s 2025 Water Quality Report describes a system of five treatment plants fed by thirteen wells, 483 to 1,400 feet deep in the lower Floridan aquifer, serving 28,669 connections. The water is aerated to drive off hydrogen sulfide and disinfected with sodium hypochlorite, and the city adds no fluoride. A second pipe network runs alongside it. Apopka built its first wastewater plant in 1972 and in 1989 expanded it into Project ARROW, the Apopka Regional Reuse of Water, which sends reclaimed water to homes and businesses for irrigation and now draws on more than 175 million gallons of storage at the Northwest Recreation Complex. That line is for lawns only. Under Florida Administrative Code 62-610.469 a pool can’t be filled from it, so once new plaster is in, the refill comes from the potable supply.
In September 2017, a sinkhole about 25 feet wide opened under a house on West Kelly Park Road and took the kitchen, den and bathroom of a home one family had lived in since 1969; a second hole formed on the same road days later. Kelly Park Road leads to Rock Springs, one of the places north of town where the aquifer spills out at the surface. Most resurfacing jobs never come near a sinkhole, but in this part of the county a crack that runs from the deck into the shell, or a patio that has settled since last season, is worth assessing before the pool is emptied, not after. That is a case for crack and delamination repair first and a new finish second.
Apopka calls itself the Indoor Foliage Capital of the World for its greenhouses and nurseries. Southwest of town is Lake Apopka, Florida’s fourth-largest lake, whose drained north-shore muck farms the state began buying back in the 1990s so the marshes could be restored. The city roughly doubled from about 26,600 residents in 2000 to more than 41,500 in 2010, so homes built for that growth, and any pools poured with them, are now around twenty years old. Older stock sits in places like Errol Estate, a 1970s golf community that a 2017 GrowthSpotter report counted at about 2,500 homes across 30 homeowner associations. With that many boards, find out which one governs your lot before changing a deck color or waterline tile. Permits go through the Building-Safety Department at 120 East Main Street and its OpenGov portal. The city’s pages do not spell out whether a re-plaster needs one, so ask before work starts.
South on Ocoee Apopka Road is Ocoee. State Road 436 runs east to Altamonte Springs, and following the Lake Apopka shore south brings you to Winter Garden.
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