Humble is our home base, and it is the community that taught us the most about what we do. I grew up in pool construction across north Houston, transitioned to landscape work, and started Artificial Grass of Humble here specifically because the pool density, the flood history, and the drainage challenges of this corridor are unlike anywhere else in the metro.
The Lake Houston watershed drains a massive area — a thousand square miles of north Harris and Montgomery County funnel toward Lake Houston through the West Fork San Jacinto, the East Fork, and a network of creeks and bayous that include Bear Branch, Greens Bayou, and smaller tributaries running through Atascocita and Fall Creek. When that system gets overwhelmed, it gets overwhelmed dramatically. Harvey put it over the top, and the Humble-Atascocita corridor held water for days in some neighborhoods.
What Harvey taught us, practically, is that pool surround drainage is not a secondary consideration in this zip code. A pool surrounded by grass that holds water for three days after a tropical event is a pool that develops equipment problems, a mosquito infestation in the standing water, and mulch erosion into the pool that the homeowner is cleaning for a week. We saw all of that in the jobs we picked up in Harvey's aftermath.
The work we do in Humble starts with a drainage map of the specific property — Bear Branch properties drain differently than Fall Creek properties, which drain differently than Kings Crossing or Eagle Springs. We have worked enough yards in each of these neighborhoods to know the local drainage patterns, the soil layering, and the seasonal clay behavior at a level that informs our base specifications before we even start excavating.
