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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
I have a few issues with how close the pool is to the ocean. Aesthetically, it's beautiful. Environmentally... it can't be good to expose sealife to pool chemicals. Even though there's a strip of beach there between the pool and the ocean, there will be some sort of leakage.
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it's a salt water "lagoon"
http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/b...pool_70920.htm
"The lagoon employs cutting-edge technology that allows it to "harvest, filter and permanently recirculate ocean water", according to biochemist and businessman Fernando Fischmann, who heads Crystal Lagoons Corporation, the company that designed the mammoth pool."
"The San Alfonso pool:
* Is 8 hectares in surface area or the equivalent of 6,000 standard-size 8-metre-long swimming pools.
* It easily dwarfs the next biggest pool - the Orthlieb in Casablanca, Morocco - which measures 150m x 100m.
* The lagoon's water temperature in summer is 26C, nine degrees warmer than the ocean it sits alongside.
* Its waters are transparent to a depth of 35 metres.
* It cost approximately US$3.5 million to build and
the maintenance cost is low, the equivalent of 1/4 of a golf course (18 holes) only!
* The pool fills itself with 250,000 cubic meters of water from the Pacific ("which filters itself") " |
