Park City Police Solar Project Completed

Post Date:09/25/2012
Park City Police Facility Drawing on Power of the Sun

PARK CITY, Utah — The Park City Police Force has a new resource at its disposal: the power of the sun. Thanks to support from Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program the City was able to install 88 American-made solar panels on the Police Facility in August 2012. The 22 kilowatts of solar energy will generate 35,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per year, nearly enough to power four average Utah households. The solar panels complement a wide variety of green measures, such as geothermal heat pumps, that were previously integrated into the facility when it was built in 2007.

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Soils can potentially trap a large amount of carbon away from the atmosphere. One method of driving more carbon into soils is through regenerative agriculture.

For example, in the summer of 2018 Park City decided to initiate regenerative agriculture on the iconic piece of land at McPolin Barn. This piece of land had remained relatively undisturbed since it was set aside under easement in 1991. The lack of disturbance on the land led to the grasses that grow and die each year to thatch together, never properly decomposing into the soil.

In partnership with Bill White Farms, a local non-profit organization, cattle were reintroduced to the former dairy. Rather than allowing them to spread out and graze on their favorite species, the cattle were herded together which forced them to eat down the grasses and weeds indiscriminately. The disturbance by the cows hooves, as well as what comes out of their tail ends, helped to mix dead matter with the soil and facilitate the decomposition process. This accelerated decomposition is key in releasing nutrients, thus creating a healthy environment for microbiota to trap more carbon away from the atmosphere and build up the health of our soils. The healthy soils are also more able to retain water, and allow for better growth of native species instead of noxious weeds.

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