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Windsor Heights values sustainability.
As a community completely surrounded by other cities, we simply cannot grow our borders to expand our city. Instead, we have to improve everything we have. An important step towards a healthy, sustainable community is educating our citizens on the efforts the city has undertaken to become more green. In addition, individuals can do a tremendous amount themselves to make their own home more green. Throughout the year, we will be offering an informational series on sustainability on a variety of topics. Below are two scheduled events.
February 16 • 6:00 pm • Community and Events Center
3E, Electrical Engineering and Equipment Company based in Windsor Heights, will be presenting on different types of lighting, occupancy sensors, etc., available and how evolving technology can be used in a person’s residential home to save electrical costs and help the environment. Specific information on how up-front costs can be negated by the significant long term energy savings will be available.
March 29 • 6:00 pm • Community and Events Center
Every year, the sanitary sewer pipes in Windsor Heights, through broken and deteriorating pipes, leaking joints and manholes and also through private residential lines with the same problems (and other connections like perimeter home drains and sump pumps), send thousands of gallons of rain and ground water into on sanitary sewer lines. As you can imagine, this creates a massive problem for our environment, the city as a whole and sometimes, individual property owners. Not only does all the water in our sanitary sewer lines have to be treated in a waste water treatment plant, costing millions of dollars, but this also causes sewer backups into people’s homes – a problem no one wants to deal with. The City of Windsor Heights has worked with the Windsor Heights-Urbandale Sanitary Sewer District and Polk County to create a fund, administered by the Neighborhood Finance Corporation, to help residents offset the costs with fixing their private sanitary sewer problems. Plan to attend and learn more about financing available to help solve your home’s problems.
RAIN BARRELS • APRIL 19th 6:00 p.m. • Community and Events Center
Did you know the roof of a house literally sheds thousands of gallons every rain event? That water can be harvested and used to help water your lawn, plants, and gardens. But all too often, that water rushes into our stormwater system and ultimately to our streams, leading to increased flow that eats away at the stream bed, causing erosion, siltation and flash flooding. Rain barrels are not a new idea, but constructing them and installing them on your house may seem like a lot of work, when in reality, it is fairly simple. Join us this April in the Community and Events Center to learn about rain barrels, different types and sizes and installation for your house.
