How do casinos, particularly the Flamingo, keep their pool water so cold? I have a pool in Minnesota and if we get a few days in the 90s our water temperature is 90. With your summers of continuous days of 100 degrees, I'm amazed your pools stay so cool and refreshing.
MGM Resorts International spokeswoman Stacy Hamilton says, “We asked around to a few of our properties and the water that's pumped into the pools from the county is regulated at 68 degrees. We don’t have a water-cooling system and we actually have to heat up the water to 73-75 degrees to make it comfortable for guests. The continuous flow of 68-degree water throughout the day keeps the pools cool even during the hottest months.”
We couldn’t get any elaboration from Caesars Entertainment, owner of the Flamingo, other than to say that what they do is “in line” with MGM’s technique.
The management team at the Orleans added some insight as to why Las Vegas pool water is as temperate as it is. “Typically, a city with high humidity will produce pools with a water temperature closer to its outside temperature and will hold it significantly longer. With a dry city like Las Vegas, the heat has less effect on the pool’s temperature, resulting in a cooler water temperature. Additionally, due to the high volume of visitation during the peak summer months, our properties’ pools are backwashed daily, which also adds to coolness.”
Note that backwashing is the process of cleaning a swimming-pool's filter by reversing the flow of water, from into the pool to out of the pool, to flush out contaminants. This eliminates the necessity of cleaning the filter manually and it's another way of running out the water heated up by the ambient temperature and replacing it with the cool water from the tap.
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Diane Crosby
Aug-24-2017
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Ray
Aug-25-2017
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