[CPEO-BIF] Moran project, Burlington, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Plans for Moran project go green

By John Briggs
Burlington Free Press (VT)
December 13, 2009


The Moran plant has loomed over Burlington’s waterfront since 1954 — 90 
feet tall, fortress-like and with a floor area of 44,142 square feet, 
according to the Community and Economic Development Office.

In its power-plant days, it was a polluter. Its generators, cooled by 
water from Lake Champlain that poured into the basement through concrete 
sluiceways, burned coal, which arrived by rail, was stored in huge piles 
in the north yard and was hoisted into the plant by heavy conveyor belts.

Reincarnated, city officials and designers say, it will be the 
antithesis of a polluting industrial site: a green-built, LEED-certified 
model of environmentally sensitive re-use, parsimonious with energy, 
non-polluting, fitted with state-of-the-art heating, cooling and 
lighting, a creative stormwater management system, and, of special note, 
a system that will use lake water to turn the giant freezer of an indoor 
ice-climbing facility into a producer of zero - yes, no - waste.

...

For the entire article, swee
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20091213/LIVING09/91211018/Plans-for-Moran-project-go-green

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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