Your PUD PUD News Line

3/16/2005

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Chelan County PUD welcomed celebrity gardener Ciscoe Morris, host of KING-5 TV's “Gardening with Ciscoe,” back to the KPQ Home and Garden Show March 13. Ciscoe answered gardening questions while entertaining the crowd.

Ciscoe’s seminar was part of the Xeriscape (low-water-use gardening) program promoted by the PUD.

Here’s a Xeriscape tip: With a potential drought looming, this would be a great year to install a Xeriscape (low-water-use) garden. Once established, Xeriscape plants can cut landscape water use by up to 80 percent. Xeriscaping can mean moving a few plants around, watering according to need, or designing a whole new landscape. For details, visit our Web site at www.chelanpud.org and click on "Conservation."

How much do you know about PUD fiber?

The PUD’s Fiber-Optic Networks Department wants to know what you know about our wholesale network.

Click here to take a short quiz. Maybe you’ll learn something.

Click here to visit the PUD’s fiber-optic networks Web site.

Seasonal job fair this weekend

The PUD will host a job fair for 20 seasonal parks, fish and wildlife and meter reading positions from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 19 at PUD Headquarters Auditorium.

Click here for more details.

Visit Rocky Reach Dam this summer

The Rocky Reach Visitor Center opened for the 2005 season on March 12.

Visitors are welcome to tour the exhibits and the Museum of the Columbia at their leisure. Guides are on hand to answer questions, provide in-depth tours and make the experience more enjoyable for visitors.

Click here to see what’s new at Rocky Reach this year.

“Smart” PUD program helps customers save money

The PUD’s Resource$mart program helps fund energy-efficiency improvements for industrial and commercial customers. Participants are eligible for 75 percent of the cost of installing the conservation measure or three-year projected net revenue to the District (whichever is smaller). Fruit warehouses have been the primary participants in the program.

Overall, the Resource$mart program is saving the PUD about $720,000 a year, or enough energy to power about 1,300 homes.

Learn more about your Chelan County PUD at www.chelanpud.org.