What volume of water is housed at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre?
The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre houses 9,500,000 litres of water. • Wild Coast habitat: This pool contains more than 4,000,000 litres of salt water at ambient sea water temperature. • Beluga habitat: This pool contains 2,000,000 litres of salt water cooled to 11°C. How is water temperature controlled in the cold water habitats? • Beluga habitat: A chiller is located behind the Arctic Canada Gallery. It cools both the water in the habitat and the air in the gallery, if needed. Waste heat is carried to a cooling tower, and some is used to heat the water in the Graham Amazon Gallery reservoir. How are the habitats kept clean? • Wild Coast habitat: The total volume of water in the habitat passes through one of four Vacuum Diatomaceous Earth (DE) filters or one of eight Pressure Sand Filters every 110 minutes. DE is a white, gritty powder made up of the crushed skeletons of single-celled algae. Each year, 5500 bags of DE are used, at a cost of $68,000. A small amount of chlorin
