Green Initiatives Chairwoman Suggests Ways to Conserve
Consolidated utility, water and fuel usage report presented to the borough council.
Cindy Steffens went before the Chatham Borough Council Monday with several ideas on how the borough can both save money and conserve water, electricity and fuel. Steffens, the chairwoman of the Green Initiatives Committee, presented a consolidated water, electric and fuel usage report to the council. The report pointed out usage habits over the years and contained several areas where Steffens said the borough could save money. Mayor Bruce Harris said "Former Mayor [Dick] Plambeck kept good track of water usage data," and he hoped to modernize the data and use it "to talk about water consumption in our homes." Nationally, Harris said, people use an average of 110 gallons per person per day. As water becomes "an increasingly scarce resource…
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R. Swanson
9:47 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Why should residents monitor their water usage, when good conservation efforts on the part of residents are rewarded with a huge increase in water and sewer rates? The Borough appears to be more concerned about revenues than conservation, so maybe residents should help out by opening up the garden hoses and letting the meters spin. Also, before hitting residents with the bill for the 25% of water… more ›