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Water News
- Approving an agreement with Webster Construction for $144.099 to replace the Rossi Hill Drive water line
- Authorizing a contract with Southwest Lift & Equipment for$145,719 to install a new heavy duty vehicle hoist
- Authorizing the issuance and sale of up to $6 million of City water revenue bonds
- Adopting a new compensation plan for the Mayor and City Council
- Adopting a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
- Approving a contract with Lyndon Jones Construction for $861,303 to restore the Royal Street retaining wall
- Appointing John Fry, Margie Scholesser, Chris Cherniak, Abby McNulty and Suzette Robarge to the Library Board
- Approving a resolution celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Park City Golf Course
- Approving the fiscal year 2014-15 budget
- Approving an ordinance prohibiting open fires and regulating the use of fireworks within Park City
- Adopting the Summit County process for recovery of costs for responding to emergencies caused by an aggravated fire emergency
- Water conservation can be a family goal. Teaching your kids about the values of water is a
simple lesson, one they can easily get on board with. Here are some great tips for your family to discuss and practice.
- Wash hands and brush teeth with less water. Wet the hands or the brush, then turn off the faucet. Especially with the abundance of liquid soaps, you don’t need the water running until you need to rinse the soap off. You could save hundreds of gallons a month on both of these.
- Shorter showers. Sometimes we turn the water on, take our time getting in, or even hang out to wake ourselves up. A little bit of motivation can get us through the shower process much more efficiently.
- Don’t waste bath water. It’s common for people to turn on the bath water, wait until it gets to the desired temperature, then close the drain. But, if you close the drain immediately and adjust the temperature as it fills, you’re accomplishing the same goal – a favorable temperature.
- Wash clothes and dishes only when the machines are full. Buying newer water efficient machines is a great step (especially those with load-size adjustments), but some families are fine running these machines when they’re not completely full. This accounts for additional runs that aren’t needed which uses hundreds of gallons of water.
- Soak dirty pots and pans. Hot water is a miracle for removing hard food on our cookware, but soaking the pots and pans with a little grease cutting soap works a lot better than running the low pressure hot water on it. And saves plenty of water, too.
- Use mulch around your house. Mulch is a fantastic (and cheap) way to hold moisture into your trees and bushes, and actually lessens the need to water them. This is especially useful for areas with a hotter climate.
- Watch for leaking toilets. Toilets are notorious for wasted water. In time the flapper deteriorates inside the toilet. If you hear your toilet automatically flushing itself, or see a stream inside the bowl, you probably need a replacement flapper. This is a $10 replacement that you can actually do yourself.
- Wash the car as efficiently as possible. Fill a soapy bucket and you don’t need to hose the car. You’ll need the hose to rinse off the soap, but being as short with the hose as possible will help the cause.
- Aerate your lawn. Let your grass enjoy the rain more easily and often. You’ll see a healthier lawn that needs less sprinklers and manual watering.
- Share these tips with everyone you know. Knowledge is power – have your kids share this with their friends, their grandparents, and pass the encouragement to the rest of the community. Teach them that sharing a pro-planet message is a great thing to do.
Practice Fire Safety When Grilling
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Renewables
Converting our electricity to 100% renewable is a major part of our transition to become a carbon neutral community. Renewable electricity is created using technologies that don't burn any fossil fuels to create energy, such as water, wind or the sun. There are no associated greenhouse gas emissions with creating energy from renewables. We're confident that the future will be powered with renewables.
Approximately one-third of our community-wide carbon footprint comes from the electricity we use. Decarbonization means removing the carbon emitted from our energy sources. Transitioning to renewables is how we will decarbonize the energy that Park City uses.
In 2016, Park City made the decision to work with the local utility, Rocky Mountain Power, to work together to bring 100% renewable electricity to Park City. Salt Lake City, Summit County and Moab have joined the effort and in total we will convert eighteen percent of Utah’s electric grid to renewables. While Park City is a small community of only around 8,000 people, we believe we have the power to influence to create a pathway for other communities to transition to 100% renewables.
Not only does renewable energy emit drastically fewer carbon emissions as it produces electricity, it will transform Utah’s economy, produce jobs and provide stable electricity. It will also clean the air as we transition our homes, buildings, and transportation to fully electric. Renewables are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels. Renewable energy has plunged is price, and now is competitive, and often cheaper, when compared to traditional coal and natural gas generation. Renewable electricity often has zero cost fuel. The sun and wind don’t ever send a bill. Compare this to traditional coal and natural gas generation, where the fuel price can fluctuate. PacifiCorp, Rocky Mountain Power’s parent company, recently stated that thirteen of its twenty-two coal plants are uneconomic.
In addition, renewable energy keeps the dollars spent on energy close to home. Park City alone spends over $245 million per year on energy, much of which ends up in unstable or even corrupt regions of the world. Imagine if that money was spent on local jobs, benefiting our local economy?
