Celebrate Earth Day
April 23
Conserve and Earn
Cash!
Let Your
Savings Take Root
Cleaning Up our Water Wells
Etcetera...Etcetera
Noticias en Breve
SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR THE PLANET
at Pasadena's Greening the Earth Day
festival Saturday, April 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Memorial Park.
Partly sponsored by Pasadena Water and Power and the Public Works Department,
this free family festival will feature dozens of exhibits on nature and the
environment, demonstrations, food, music, fun activities and giveaways. Each
visitor who brings a grocery-sized bag full of California Redemption Value (CRV)
beverage containers will receive a raffle ticket with a chance to win great
prizes.
Many thanks go to the festival's additional supporters: California Department of
Conservation, Division of Recycling, Patagonia Pasadena and Armory Center
of the Arts.
For more information call 744-4721.
PWP CUSTOMERS ARE CONSERVING more
than ever. To thank you for your efforts we're rolling out even more rebates on
energy-efficient gear and a new program for residents who live in all-electric
homes.
You can now earn rebates of up to $200 through PWP's EnergyStar program, which
offers valuable incentives for buying approved refrigerators, window air
conditioners,
ceiling fans, compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), fluorescent torchiere
lamps and hardwired lighting fixtures.
To cool off your home before summer hits, check into PWP's Residential Efficient
Cooling program that offers great rebates for central air conditioners, whole
house fans
and solar attic fans, plus EnergyStar programmable thermostats, skylights, light
tubes, windows and doors.
For customers who live in all-electric homes (wired to use electricity instead
of
natural gas for water and space heating), PWP now offers rebates for
energy-efficient heat pumps as well as EnergyStar dishwashers, clothes washers
and programmable thermostats.
For all of these programs, rebate amounts are even larger for customers who buy
their new appliances from Pasadena retailers and for those who have signed up
for PWP's green power program.
PLANTING A LEAFY GREEN SHADE TREE is
one of the easiest, prettiest and cheapest ways to keep your home cool all
summer. Learn how to choose the best one for your yard at a free workshop
sponsored by PWP Saturday, May 7, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Victory Park or
Saturday, June 25, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Villa Park.
A certified arborist will give you tips on finding the perfect spot, choosing,
planting and maintaining your tree, then you'll move outdoors for a
tree-planting demonstration. You'll also learn more about PWP's Cool Trees
program, which offers rebates of up to $50 per tree (limit 10 trees) for your
choice of 37 varieties. Rebates are even higher for PWP's green power customers.
Reserve your spot today!
HELP IS ON THE HORIZON
for five PWP wells that fed into Sunset Reservoir for
many years. Water from these wells, located in the northwest area of Pasadena,
was supplied to Sunset Reservoir where it was blended with imported water from
the Metropolitan Water District before being distributed to consumers.
The oldest of these wells began operating in 1924. In the late 1990s the
California Department of Health Services began issuing new regulatory standards
for perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, fireworks, explosives and road
flares. PWP shut down four of the five wells because their perchlorate levels
were too high to meet state standards.
 PWP
recently hired Stetson Engineers Inc. to design a new treatment system for the
three wells with the highest levels of perchlorate. In the meantime, PWP has
been pumping primarily from wells on the east side of town.
In addition to the Sunset Reservoir project, work is moving forward to bring
even more wells back into operation: A treatment plant is removing volatile
organic compounds from Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s soil; a recently constructed
NASA-sponsored treatment plant will remove contaminants from the groundwater
directly beneath Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see the January/February Pasadena In
Focus); and a treatment plant in the planning stages will clean the water in
four wells in Pasadena’s Monk Hill basin, which runs under Hahamongna Watershed
Park and near JPL.
A community meeting hosted by NASA is scheduled for Tuesday, March 29, from
7 to 9 p.m. at Eliot Middle School, 2184 N. Lake Ave. in Altadena. During the
meeting, which is free and open to the public, officials will provide updates on
NASA’s groundwater cleanup project beneath and near JPL. For more information
visit http://jplwater.nasa.gov or call (818) 393-0754.
For more information, visit www.PWPweb.com
or call the PWP AnswerLine
at 744-6970
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