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Alma’s summers are long, hot, and humid and that’s not a complaint, it’s an opportunity. From April through October, your backyard can be the place your family actually wants to be. No packing the car, no driving 30 minutes to Laura S. Walker State Park, no sharing space with strangers. Just step outside.
The sandy Coastal Plain soils of Bacon County behave differently than the clay-heavy terrain in other parts of Georgia. A pool that isn’t engineered for how this ground actually drains and settles is a pool that can shift, crack, or fail before it should. A concrete pool designed specifically for your lot accounting for Southeast Georgia’s drainage patterns and soil profile is built to hold up for decades, not just a few seasons.
And it’s not just the pool itself. When a well-built inground pool is part of a thoughtfully designed outdoor living space, it can add up to 7% to your home’s value. In a market where median home values in Alma sit around $109,000–$130,000, that’s real equity on top of every summer your family spends in your own backyard instead of someone else’s.
We’re based in Douglas, Georgia about 24 miles from Alma along the US 1/US 23 corridor. That’s not a city-page website talking at you from across the state. We’re a South Georgia neighbor who knows how this region builds, how this ground behaves, and what Alma families actually care about.
Deep Waters Pools was founded in 2014 by someone who spent more than 30 years in concrete, plumbing, and pool construction and who got tired of watching families across South Georgia get burned by contractors who disappeared after the deposit. Every pool we build is concrete, custom-designed, and backed by that same hands-on trade background that started long before the business had a name.
We’ve worked across the South Georgia region, navigating county-level permitting in Bacon County and beyond, Coastal Plain soil conditions, and the kind of site challenges that make other builders walk away. If you’re in Alma or anywhere in Bacon County, you’re in our wheelhouse.
It starts with a conversation about your property and your goals not a sales pitch. We look at your lot, your drainage, your sun exposure, and how your family actually uses outdoor space before a single design decision gets made. Bacon County’s sandy, well-draining Coastal Plain soils are part of that evaluation from day one, because how your ground behaves affects how your pool gets engineered.
From there, you get a 3D rendering of your pool design. You can see the shape, the water features, the surrounding patio and outdoor living space all of it before construction begins. You adjust what you want to adjust. You approve it when it feels right. Nothing gets built until you’re confident in what you’re looking at.
Once the design is locked, we pull all the required permits through Bacon County’s building department and coordinate every inspection pre-construction site verification, structural inspection of the shell and reinforcement, electrical bonding, and final inspection. You don’t have to figure out how county permitting works. We’ve done it dozens of times across South Georgia. From permit approval to a finished, swimmable pool typically runs six to eight weeks which means a project that gets moving in late winter can realistically be ready before the Georgia Blueberry Festival rolls around in June.
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We build exclusively in concrete no fiberglass shells, no pre-shaped catalog options. That means your pool can be any shape, any size, and configured around the actual dimensions and grade of your Alma property. Sloped lots, drainage-challenged sites, unusual configurations these aren’t problems that send us away. They’re exactly the kind of builds that require a contractor with real structural experience, and that’s what you get.
The design scope goes well beyond the pool itself. Custom water features, vanishing edge and infinity edge configurations, tanning ledges, beach entries, integrated spas, outdoor kitchens, fire features, and landscape pool integration are all part of what we design. If you’ve been to an event at the Blueberry Plantation Golf Course and thought about what that kind of outdoor space could look like in your own backyard, that’s the conversation we’re built for.
Every pool also comes with a custom-fitted safety cover included as standard not an add-on, not an upsell. Transparent pricing means you’ll know the realistic range for your project before you commit. Most concrete pool builds in South Georgia fall between $50,000 and $85,000 depending on size, features, and site conditions. That range gets discussed honestly at the start, so there are no surprises when the quote comes in.
For most concrete pool projects in Alma and the surrounding Bacon County area, the realistic range is $50,000 to $85,000. That range moves based on the size of the pool, what features you’re including (water features, spas, outdoor living integration), and what your specific site requires. Sandy Coastal Plain soils in this part of Georgia drain differently than clay-heavy terrain elsewhere in the state, and proper drainage engineering is factored into the build cost upfront not discovered later as a surprise line item.
We give you transparent cost ranges before you commit to anything. The goal is to make sure you’re going into this with a clear picture of what the investment looks like, not finding out after the contract is signed. If your project falls outside the typical range for any reason, that gets explained honestly before work begins.
Fiberglass pools are manufactured off-site as pre-shaped shells and installed into an excavated hole. That limits your shape options, rules out features like infinity edges and complex water features, and means you’re working within whatever the manufacturer decided to build not what your property actually calls for. In South Georgia’s sandy Coastal Plain soils, fiberglass shells can also be more vulnerable to shifting and ground movement over time, since they weren’t engineered for your specific site conditions.
Concrete pools are built from scratch on your property, designed around your lot, your drainage, and your goals. They can be any shape, accommodate any feature, and are engineered specifically for the soil and drainage profile of your Alma property. The upfront cost is higher than a basic fiberglass install, but the structural longevity typically 30 or more years with proper maintenance and the design flexibility make it a fundamentally different product.
Yes. Georgia requires a building permit for all residential inground pool construction, and Bacon County is no exception. The process involves multiple inspections throughout the build: a pre-construction site inspection before excavation, a structural inspection of the pool shell and reinforcement before concrete is poured, an electrical bonding inspection, and a final inspection that confirms the completed pool meets all code requirements including the barrier fencing that Georgia law requires around all residential pools.
The permit must be pulled in the licensed contractor’s name, not the homeowner’s. If a contractor ever asks you to pull your own permit, that’s a significant red flag it typically means they’re unlicensed or uninsured. We handle all permitting and inspection coordination as part of every project. You don’t have to navigate Bacon County’s building department process. That’s already built into how we work.
Once permitting is approved, the construction phase for most concrete pool builds runs six to eight weeks. That timeline can shift depending on site conditions, weather, and the complexity of what’s being built a pool with extensive water features or outdoor living integration naturally takes longer than a straightforward build. Bacon County’s sandy soils typically excavate efficiently, which can work in your favor during the early stages of construction.
The more important timeline to understand is the planning window. If you want a pool ready for Alma’s swimming season which runs from roughly April through October you need to be in the design and permitting process by late winter at the latest. January through March is when most South Georgia families who want a summer pool need to be making decisions. Getting started early gives you the best chance of being in the water by May or June, before the heat of summer is already at full force.
In many cases, yes and this is exactly where concrete pool construction has a real advantage over fiberglass. Because a concrete pool is engineered from the ground up for your specific site, drainage challenges and sloped lots can be designed around rather than treated as disqualifying factors. Southeast Georgia’s Coastal Plain soils drain more freely than clay-heavy terrain, but that same drainage profile means the engineering has to account for how water moves through and around the pool structure over time.
We evaluate site conditions as part of the initial consultation before any design work begins. If your lot has challenges, you’ll hear an honest assessment of what’s possible and what it realistically costs to address. Some sites do require additional drainage engineering or structural work that affects the overall budget. That gets discussed upfront, not discovered mid-construction.
It can and in a warm-climate market like South Georgia, the conditions are more favorable than in northern states where pools sit unused for half the year. Research consistently shows that inground pools in warm-climate markets can add 5 to 7% to a home’s appraised value. In Alma, where median home values sit around $109,000 to $130,000, that translates to roughly $5,000 to $9,000 in added equity from a well-built pool. That’s not a guarantee, and it depends on the quality of the build and how well the pool integrates with the overall property.
What the numbers don’t capture is the practical value of having seven months of usable outdoor living space in your own backyard. The nearest public swimming options from Alma Laura S. Walker State Park and General Coffee State Park are both about 30 minutes away. For families with kids in the Bacon County School District, a private pool isn’t just a home improvement. It’s where summer actually happens.
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