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Quarterly Conservation Program Update
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The Department of Public Utilities (DPU) conservation program accomplishments for the second quarter of 2016 are summarized below. These activities were coordinated and staffed by personnel from PEEC, under contract with the DPU.
April 8 & 15, 2016 - The second annual DPU Water Festival was held at UNM Los Alamos Campus. In conjunction with LANL, the City of Santa Fe, Office of the State Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and others, the festival was held for all of the fourth graders in the Los Alamos Public Schools and local home schooled students. Interactive models, games and demonstrations were used to teach various aspects of water resources with an emphasis on water conservation.
April 23, 2016 - The DPU sponsored an educational booth at the Earth Day activities held at PEEC. The booth consisted of interactive models demonstrating solar power generation, hydroelectric power generation and thermo-electric power generation. The demonstrations were representative of the DPU's actual resources that power -up the community. Approximately 500 people visited the booth and participated in the well-received demonstrations.
June 11, 2016 - The DPU sponsored an educational booth at Los Alamos Chamber Fest 2016. In addition to the electric power generation demonstrations, DPU sponsored a 30 minute educational seminar with the Master Gardeners club on water conserving irrigation practices. Water conservations kits were distributed and a number of educational flyers.
July 16, 2016 - DPU sponsored an educational booth at the Los Alamos Science Fest 2016. The booth was extremely popular with a constant crowd taking advantage of the demonstrations, displays and educational materials. Well over 500 community members of all ages stopped by the booth.
Through-out the spring while school was in session, PEEC performed numerous age-specific education...
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