Pool service in Green Valley, AZ, mostly means care for a private backyard pool in a retirement-oriented community where plenty of neighbors swim at the recreation centers instead. If the pool behind your house is green, noisy or leaking, here is the local background and how the free line puts you in touch with help.
Tucson Pool Cleaning Pro owns no pool equipment and does no pool work. Calling (520) 372-1083 gets you an automated assistant, which takes a brief description of the problem and then transfers you to a pool service company in the Green Valley area that is independent and locally owned. What happens next, from the visit to the price to the payment, is between you and that company.
Green Valley: a retirement community on I-19
Green Valley is an unincorporated community in Pima County, strung along Interstate 19 south of Sahuarita. The Census Bureau counted 22,616 residents in 2020, up from 21,391 in 2010. Its age profile is unusual: about 80.5% of residents are 65 or older, and about 86% of homes are owner occupied.
Green Valley Recreation (GVR) runs pools and spas at its recreation centers for its member households. Those are shared facilities, and this page is not about them. It is for the homes that also keep a private pool, where the owner is responsible for the water, the equipment and the gate. To the east stand the Santa Rita Mountains. From Exit 63, Continental Road leads toward Madera Canyon on the range's north side, and the Forest Service says Mount Wrightson rises more than 7,000 feet above the surrounding lowlands.
Who provides water for Green Valley, AZ
There is no single Green Valley water department. Several separate systems serve the community, all pumping local groundwater. The name on your bill tells you which one fills your pool.
Community Water Company of Green Valley
The main provider. It has run the system since June 1977, a federal water system record lists about 22,085 people served, and the company has pursued Central Arizona Project water to take pressure off the aquifer.
Green Valley Domestic Water Improvement District
A public district that residents formed in May 2003. Its area lies south of Mission Twin Buttes, mostly on the west side of I-19, with about 4,400 residential connections.
Farmers Water Co
A groundwater system listed in Green Valley, serving about 4,290 people through roughly 1,700 connections, according to the federal public water system record.
Valle Verde del Norte Water Cooperative
A small water cooperative named for, and serving, the Valle Verde del Norte community. The Town of Sahuarita lists it among the area's providers.
What groundwater and heat mean for a Green Valley pool
No published hardness number for any Green Valley provider turned up in our research, so we leave it off. Each provider's annual water quality report may carry the figure, and a home test kit or a test by the pool company gives you the number for your own pool. That second number matters more, because a pool keeps every mineral it is filled with while the desert sun pulls water out. Open water around Tucson loses close to six feet a year to evaporation, by the reckoning of the state's Department of Water Resources. Calcium hardness, meaning the dissolved calcium the refills leave behind, keeps rising until scale forms on tile and inside equipment.
That is why regular pool service in a desert yard includes more than skimming. A careful pool technician keeps chlorine and pH where the CDC suggests for home pools (pH 7.0 to 7.8, free chlorine of at least 1 ppm, or at least 2 ppm when stabilizer is used) and keeps an eye on calcium so it can recommend partial draining before scale takes hold. Our month by month Tucson schedule sets out that rhythm through the seasons.
Draining to the county sewer
Pima County's Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department runs a treatment plant in Green Valley, and the shared City of Tucson and Pima County guidelines treat the sanitary sewer as the preferred home for old pool water. The water should sit untreated for at least 72 hours after the last chlorine, have its pH brought to 7 to 8, and go slowly through the cleanout on your own lot using a hose and a small pump during low-use hours. Backwash may soak into your own yard if it is absorbed within 24 hours and stays off the street and the neighbors' property. Water from an acid wash never qualifies for the street. The guide to draining a pool covers the details.
Electricity and gas
Power in Green Valley comes from Tucson Electric Power or Trico Electric Cooperative, depending on the address; Trico has a Green Valley board district and TEP's Santa Rita Connection project serves the area. Southwest Gas supplies natural gas in Green Valley, which matters if your pool heater runs on gas.
- Before a trip. Confirm someone will look after the pool, and check that the pump timer is set.
- Skimmer and pump baskets. Clear out leaves and debris so water keeps flowing; do this with the pump switched off.
- Waterline. Water sitting below the middle of the skimmer opening lets air into the pump; top it up and mention it to the pool company.
- Electrical. A tripped breaker or GFCI can be reset one time. If it trips again, the fault needs a professional, so leave it alone.
- Pool products. Never combine two pool chemicals. Store each in its original container, apart from the others, dry, cool and locked.
A gas smell near the pool heater means leave the area right away. Do not touch switches, the heater or anything that could spark. When you are safely clear, call 911 and Southwest Gas at 877-860-6020.
Pool help Green Valley owners look for
Routine care is covered under pool cleaning and maintenance. Equipment that ages in the heat, from filters to heaters, falls under swimming pool repair. A light that fogs up or trips the breaker is electrical work for a professional, explained on pool light repair.
Pool Service in Tucson
What a regular pool service arrangement covers, how often a company visits, and the questions to settle before you agree to a plan.
Pool Cleaning and Weekly Maintenance
The hands-on routine: skimming, brushing, baskets, vacuuming and water testing, and why sun, dust and hard water make it a weekly job here.
Swimming Pool Repair
Filters, heaters, salt cells, valves and plumbing: how a repair visit starts with a diagnosis, and which repair work calls for a licensed contractor.
Pool Light Repair
A pool light that flickers, trips the GFCI or fogs with water: why it is electrical work for a professional and what a repair involves.
Why Green Valley homeowners call the line
A private pool, not a center pool
GVR looks after the recreation center pools. A backyard pool is yours to look after, so one free call reaches a local company for your own water and equipment.
Away for part of the year
If you travel, the company you are connected with can talk through regular visits so the pool does not turn green and draw mosquitoes while you are gone.
One number, any hour, no charge
The automated assistant answers day and night. The call is free; the pool company sets its price and you pay it directly.
License lookup made plain
This page explains the R-6 license and how to search a company on the Registrar of Contractors site before you hire it.
How a call from Green Valley works
- Dial the line(520) 372-1083 is picked up by an automated assistant around the clock, holidays included.
- Say what the pool is doingGreen water, a pump that is silent or grinding, a light that will not come on, white crust on the tile, plus the part of the Tucson area you live in.
- Get transferredYour call is handed to a pool service company in the Tucson area that is independent and locally owned. It gets a quick summary of the problem before it says hello.
- Work it out with themThat company inspects, quotes, does the job and bills you itself. If nobody picks up, your name, number, area and pool problem go to the company so it can phone you back.
About this line: Tucson Pool Cleaning Pro is a free phone line, not a pool company. It answers your call and connects you with an independent local pool service company, which inspects, quotes and does the work, and which you pay directly. Companies may pay a referral fee. The line never charges you. Read how the line works.
Look up the contractor license. Contractor licensing in Arizona is handled by the state Registrar of Contractors, known as the ROC. A residential R-6 license, Swimming Pool Service and Repair, is the one meant for servicing home pools and making minor repairs; building a pool or replacing a whole plaster or pebble interior falls under construction licenses such as B-5. Whether a cleaning-only route needs any license is not spelled out by the ROC, so it is fair to ask a company what it holds. Write down its ROC number and enter it in the state's license lookup (new tab), which lists the license status, classification and recent complaints. Tucson Pool Cleaning Pro does not run this check on anyone.
Before you call, and nearby
Every part of the Tucson area the line serves: