Mount Lemmon Lodge sends laundry to Tucson to conserve water supply [Video]

SUMMERHAVEN, Ariz. (KGUN) — — More rain and snow on Mount Lemmon is an overall positive. The community’s Domestic Water Improvement District is, however, still asking neighbors and stores to cut back their water use by 50 percent.

One of the bigger attractions up in Summerhaven is still sending their laundry down to the valley floor. KGUN9 went up to the Mount Lemmon Lodge to see how the hotel is making do.

General manager Jeremy Gassen showed how lodge staff start their process after a guest checks out. While this visit was during a slower week for the hotel, Gassen said workers can get busy, especially when every room is booked.

“When we have full houses, we sometimes have roughly 900 pounds of laundry,” he said. That includes bed sheets, pillow covers, towels and linens; “even our guest robes that we have here hanging,” Gassen said.

Lodge workers take all …