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Jenks Public Schools

Jenks Trojan Aquatic Center
Jenks, Oklahoma
Parents requested a new aquatic center Olympic-quality 50-meter by 25-yard pool is
worthy of the school’s long-standing one of the first to incorporate the Paddock
tradition of swimming excellence, and this Evacuator system to exhaust chloramines
1,200-seat aquatic center offers a modern from the pool’s surface through a return featured projects
design and innovative systems as impressive air chamber built into the pool gutter. This
as the athletes who compete there. Water is system eliminates the harsh “pool smell.” An
the design motif that flows throughout the efficient lighting system provides illumination
facility, from the “breaking wave” roof to the for televised events, computerized controls
blue “waves” hanging from the lobby ceiling keep lights at energy-efficient levels for 86
and the “river of glass” viewing area. There daily use, while alternating bulbs save
are even white “fins” on the exterior, which energy and bulb replacement costs.
help screen mechanical equipment. The

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