New Cooling-Coil Dehumidifier Helps Clean Up 'Mess' of Hotel Pool Area: Local utility funds 50 percent of the cost of the system

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When The Chambers Group Inc., a Seattle-based management company, took over operation of the Howard Johnson Hotel, now a Holiday Inn, in downtown Everett, Wash., in late 2004, the swimming-pool area was, in the words of Doug Bartells, general manager of the hotel and a principal of The Chambers Group, "a mess." "The pool room had suffered 20-some years of deterioration from chlorine and moisture," Bartells said. "Everything was affected ... the paint on the walls, the sheetrock itself was waterlogged, the wall studs were affected, plus anything metal had rusted or corroded. We essentially had no functioning air-handling system, and the pool water was a ghastly brownish color."