Natural Gas is a Bargain
Celebrate Public Power Week
Spruce up your Garden
Thirty Acres Added to
Hahamongna
Etcetera...Etcetera
Noticias en Breve
PASADENA'S POWER PLANT
can crank out enough energy to bring homes and
businesses to life citywide. But it needs a healthy diet of up to 35,000 Million
British Thermal Units (MMBtu) per day of natural gas for maximum output. Now, as
part-owner of the Magnolia Power Plant in Burbank, Pasadena Water and Power
needs even more.
In the past, PWP purchased natural gas from private companies while rates rose
and fell like prices at your local gas station. As part of a new project
sponsored by the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), PWP will
get some of its natural gas right from the source and at great prices.
PWP has signed a 25-year agreement with SCPPA to buy up to 1,000 MMBtu per day.
On behalf of its members (including PWP, Anaheim, Colton, Glendale and others),
SCPPA will buy interest in up to eight natural gas fields in North America,
looking for proven producers that have been verified by a national expert and
making sure the cost is below market rate.
PWP will have a reliable source of natural gas, covering 13% of Pasadena's
average daily needs - just one more way PWP is stabilizing costs to keep rates
low for our customers.
AS PASADENA WATER AND POWER CELEBRATES
100 YEARS OF SERVICE to the residents and
businesses of Pasadena, we also want to take time to celebrate all that publicly
owned utilities across the country do for their communities.
Public power means local control, efficient service and competitive rates.
Publicly owned utilities also keep a greater share of their revenues in the
communities they serve than investor-owned utilities.
To celebrate these and other benefits, Oct. 2 to 8 has been designated as
Public Power Week. PWP will mark the occasion with a very special event
for local school-aged children.
NOW YOU CAN TAKE PASADENA WATER AND POWER'S
popular water-wise landscaping classes online on your own time.
Go to www.PWPweb.com and click on "Your
Water" to get started.
The tutorial focuses on four areas: The Getting Started section shows how to lay
out your garden depending on your goals - attracting birds, producing fruit,
creating privacy, etc.; the Plant Selection section walks you through choosing
the right plants; the Irrigation Basics section teaches you how to maximize
plant growth using as little water as possible; and the Landscape Planting and
Maintenance section teaches you how to properly care for your garden and set up
a watering schedule to keep it healthy.
While you're choosing plants, don't forget to include a few shade trees. They
have been shown to cut home cooling and heating costs by as much as 20%. You can
learn more at two free workshops Saturday, Sept. 17, and Saturday, Oct. 29, from
9 to 11:30 a.m. outdoors at Villa-Parke Community Center. The workshops will
cover how to choose and plant your trees and will explain PWP's Cool Trees
program, which offers rebates of up to $50 for more than 30 varieties of shade
trees. For more information about the Cool Trees program, visit
www.PWPweb.com, click on Your Home and
choose the Greening Pasadena link.
NATURE LOVERS, SCOUTS AND HORSEBACK
RIDERS are cheering this summer over the
city's recent repurchase of 30 acres of park land from the Metropolitan Water
District. Located just south of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and costing $1.2
million, the oak woodland will be incorporated into Hahamongna Watershed Park.
 Hahamongna is already a popular recreation area with picnic grounds, trails, an
outdoor amphitheater and an 18-hole disc golf course. PWP oversees several water
facilities in the area including two intakes that collect water from Arroyo Seco
and Millard Canyon streams and divert the flow to spreading basins that help
recharge the Raymond Basin groundwater aquifer. Three PWP groundwater wells and
three major water lines are also in the area.
MWD bought the property from Pasadena in 1970 with plans for a water treatment
plant
but plans changed through the years. After working on a lease agreement for
several years, MWD decided to sell the property outright instead. The sale
agreement requires that the property be used for open space and park use and
that existing hiking and biking trails be protected.
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