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Spring Information


Spring Temperature
:  112 degrees  44.4 C
Pool Temperature:  Summer: 85 degrees to 99 degrees  Winter:  95 degrees to 101 degrees
*Cold Water added  to cool water temperature and a cooling cannon that sprays pool water over pool.
Hot Tub Temperature: 102 degrees to 106 degrees
Hot Spring water also supplies the water slides, water playground and floor heating system.
Pool, slides, hot tub and playground are chlorinated.
 

Spring Flow:  Over 600 galloons per minute
Spring Size:  A 40 x 60 concrete foundation surrounds the oval shape of the spring
Time to fill the swimming pool
:  8 hours
Drainage of pool:  45 minutes
*Pool has a flow through system - few left in Idaho. Pool is drained several times per week.
Hot Tub:  Turn over rate:  1/2 hour
Spring water that is not flowing into the pool, is flowing into the Marsh Creek for irrigation.


 

Ralston, D.R., Arrigo, J.L., Baglio, J.V., Coleman, L.M., Hubbell, J.M., and Sounder, KC., 1981  Geothermal Evaluation of the Thrust Zone in Southeastern Idaho" Idaho Water and Energy Resources Research Institute, 110 p.

http://geoheat.oit.edu/directuse/all/dur0293.htm

 

Downata Hot Springs ▪ P.O. Box 185, 25900 S. Downata Road ▪ Downey, Idaho 83234  ▪
(208) 897-5736

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