Project Description

CARTER•DESIGN ASSOCIATES as Prime Design Consultant in the Design Build Team led by Chasco Constructors.  C•DA led a team of landscape architects and engineers to renovate Austin’s Deep Eddy Municipal Pool, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a City of Austin Historic Landmark.  It is a spring fed pool with origins that date back to 1916 and in its current configuration to the WPA projects of the 1930s which also coincides with its purchase by the City of Austin.

The renovation of Deep Eddy included a new pool bottom to prevent leaking and an extension providing zero-depth entry meeting current ADA requirements.  The unusual battered pool walls remain.  Damaged concrete coping was replaced in kind.  A new well was drilled to ultimately replace the original aged wells which will remain and provide supplemental water and landscape irrigation. Other ADA and Life safety upgrades, plus a new storage building, well houses, and landscape walls to widen the deck area.  The goal was to retain the overall look and feel of the site such that the changes would not be obvious to general user, but identifiable for those that are interested as outlined in the Secretary of the Interiors Guidelines for Rehabilitation.

Deep Eddy, typically, is partially closed in the winter, construction was scheduled to be done as much during that season as possible.  Even with record rains during that time the Design Build Team was able to work through unusual soil conditions and remain on schedule for an April opening.