Pool Water Features and Waterfalls in Canyon Falls, Flower Mound, Texas
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing fits pool water features to existing pools in Canyon Falls, Flower Mound, Texas, where the Town's 2008 planned-development rules keep pools, spas and decks out of the required side yards.
Flower Mound's part of Canyon Falls is 14 residential records at the Town's far west, Phase 1, Phase 15B and Villages 4A, 4B, 5, 6A, 6B, 8, 10A, 10B, 12, 13, 14 and 16B, with Cedar Sage Trail, Elderberry Way, Whiskerbrush Road and Smoky Oak Trail carrying the most addresses. The Town's Canyon Falls Park on Stonecrest Road opened in June 2024, Argyle High School stands on Canyon Falls Drive, and the Canyon Falls Club and the HOA office are across the line in Northlake. Ask for a free estimate any day or night; we can go over the feature, its pump and the rules that apply on your lot.
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Homes built since 2014, pools since 2015
The Town's parcel records give a year built for 702 parcels inside the Flower Mound records of Canyon Falls, from 2014 to 2023, with a median of 2017; 546 of them (77.8%) went up in the 2010s and 156 in the 2020s. The median home has 3,251.5 square feet of building and 463 (66.0%) have 3,000 or more, on a median parcel of 0.2298 acre.
The best-matching Census block group, block group 2 of tract 203.17, reaches beyond Canyon Falls, so its figures are its own: in 2020–2024 survey estimates, 947 units with a median year built of 2016 (±2) and a median home value of $779,500 (±$60,285), 889 of them detached houses.
Pool permits since 2015
The Town's permit search holds 197 swimming-pool permits on the residential addresses inside these records, all from 2015 on and 195 of them for new pools: 63 applied for in 2015–2019 and 134 in 2020–2026, about 26.7 for every 100 residential address points. A permit records a pool's type, not its features.
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing can look at your coping and bond beam and say which waterfall, scupper or jets would suit them.
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(469) 526-3886One community in three jurisdictions
The design guidelines the Town adopted for Canyon Falls in 2008 describe a master-planned community of about 1,242 acres in Flower Mound, Northlake and Argyle's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and they require builders to meet each town's latest building standards, the more restrictive rule applying. About 626 acres are in Flower Mound, its homes on about 310.8 acres of residential records. The land was annexed in 1999 as part of the Denton Creek District and stayed undeveloped until the Canyon Falls project was approved in 2008.
For a Flower Mound address, the Town issues the permits. Across the line, Northlake's own records place Canyon Falls Water Control and Improvement District No. 2 among the districts serving its newer communities; our pages on pool tile cleaning in Northlake and travertine and paver pool decks in Argyle cover the other two towns.
PD-98's rules for pools, spas, decks and equipment
Planned Development 98, created by the Town's Ordinance 19-08 in 2008 and amended in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018, covers about 99.8% of the Flower Mound records and requires a mandatory property owners' association. Its residential design guidelines send any and all improvements to the Canyon Falls Design Review Committee for approval before construction starts, remodeling and additions included.
The guidelines keep pools, spas and decks on single-family detached lots out of the required minimum side yards. In 2018, Ordinance 02-18 cut the minimum side yard on certain Single-Family District-10 lots in Village 5 from 10 feet to 7.5 feet and returned Village 4B's lots to the standard SF-10 setbacks. Pool equipment visible from a street or common area, or set on a property line, has to be screened by walls, plantings or both. PD-98 names pools, spas and decks, not water features, so ask whether a raised wall or rock waterfall counts against the side yard.
The Canyon Falls HOA's current design guidelines sit behind its resident login, so check them for water features, lighting and noise before anything is ordered. Under the Town's amended pool code, altering a pool or a system the code regulates needs permits first; whether a new feature does is a question for Building Inspections.
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing will walk the side yard and the equipment spot with you before a feature is planned.
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(469) 526-3886Ponds, falls and sight lines in the plan
PD-98's plan created two in-stream ponds on Graham Branch, each about 2 to 3 acres, with aerator fountains to treat and detain runoff. Its guidelines ask for sight lines to drainageways, open areas, water features and scenic horizons to be kept as far as possible, and put the garage on the far side of any lot whose side faces a water feature, drainageway or park. The Town counts 200 acres of natural open space in the Graham Branch Creek Preserve, and its 10.5-acre Canyon Falls Park has a shaded splash pad that runs on treated, recirculated water.
None of that sets the rules for a backyard feature. Pentair sizes the flow for its waterfalls at roughly 15 gallons per minute per foot of waterfall length and calls for clean water from a cartridge filter of 20 microns or finer, and for a raised wall it lists the wall's thickness, the thickness of the tile or stone and the weight of the covering concrete or stone as the things to plan for. The American Shotcrete Association adds that a wall wet on one face and drying on the other needs to be made watertight, or the water passing through leaches calcium and wears it down over time. Our page on pool water features and waterfalls compares sheer descents, scuppers, deck jets and rock waterfalls, with published prices.
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(469) 526-3886Gravelly loam over bedrock, and heavy clay
The USDA soil survey maps 16 soil map units inside the Flower Mound records of Canyon Falls. By main soil, Gasil covers about 24.3% of the land, Somervell 17.5%, Sanger 11.1%, Birome 9.4% and Branyon 7.5%, and the largest single unit is Somervell gravelly loam on 1 to 5 percent slopes. About 20.9% of the land, in Somervell gravelly loam and Aledo gravelly clay loam, is rated limited for homes because of depth to hard bedrock, which Timber Creek, Wellington and Bridlewood don't show at all. Another 38.4% lies in map units rated “Very limited” for shrink-swell, including Branyon clay at a linear extensibility of 13 and Sanger clay at 9.1.
Soil maps describe an area, not one yard, so trenching for a feature's supply line or setting the footing for a raised wall starts with what the ground on your lot turns out to be.
Schools, trails and the Town's water lines
About 94.6% of the Flower Mound part is zoned to Argyle ISD, at Hilltop Elementary, Argyle Middle and Argyle High, and 3.4% to Northwest ISD. About 5.15 miles of trail and bike route run inside the records, and the Town's utility map shows about 8.4 miles of potable water main there, all laid in the 2010s and 2020s, under a planned development that requires building to follow the Canyon Falls Water Master Plan.
Water features with other work on the pool
A feature set in the bond beam or a raised wall often goes in alongside other work. Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing also handles bubblers and tanning ledges, spa additions, travertine and paver decks, waterline tile and coping, and quartz or pebble finishes, all within its pool resurfacing in Flower Mound work.
Steps to a new waterfall or scupper
Pick the feature and its height
Pentair recommends mounting a sheet effect no higher than 3 feet and a rain effect no higher than 6.
Check the side yard and the HOA
PD-98 keeps pools, spas and decks out of the required side yards, 7.5 feet on certain Village 5 lots, and the HOA’s current guidelines are checked too.
Ask the Town
Building Inspections says whether the feature needs a permit before the pool or its plumbing is altered.
Give it its own supply
Custom Molded Products plumbs each scupper with a dedicated pump on at least 2-inch pipe, a filter strainer ahead of the feature and a bonding lug on its back.
Set it level and supported
A scupper sits 1/8 inch off level, tipped toward the pool, and a waterfall’s lip rests fully on mortar so the coping can’t warp it.
Screen the equipment and cure the finish
Pumps seen from a street or common area are screened, and exposed finish above the water is water-cured to limit shrinkage cracks.
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(469) 526-3886Plan a waterfall or water feature in Canyon Falls
Flower Mound Pool Resurfacing answers calls and estimate requests 24/7. Tell us about the pool’s edge and coping, the side yards on your lot, and the effect you have in mind.