September is National Preparedness Month!

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Cities of El Segundo, Hawthorne, and Torrance: Take Steps Now to Become a Green Business

Get 300 Gallons of Free Water From LADWP

Register For your Free West Basin Rain Barrel

Save more with SoCalREN’s Supercharged Incentives!

SoCalREN is offering supercharged incentive rates for public agency energy efficiency projects completed in 2022! Public agencies can learn more about how to maximize cash incentives and bring energy efficiency projects within financial reach. Complete an energy efficiency project this year and receive: 

• 50% of project costs covered by SoCalREN, or; 

• 150% of SoCalREN’s standard incentive rates. 

Eligible equipment includes HVAC, HVAC controls, interior lighting, exterior lighting, retrocommissioning, building envelopes, heat pumps, pumping, and process optimization, and more!  

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Third And Fourth Grade Classes Can Earn $1,000 By Saving Energy

The SoCalREN Kits for Kids Program

introduces third- and fourth-grade students, from eligible schools,

to energy efficiency.

Students perform an interactive scavenger hunt and receive energy-efficient items at no cost, which can help their families save money and improve their comfort and safety at home.

Participation includes each household installing the energy-efficient items from the kit in their home.

Each enrolled classroom is eligible to receive a $1,000 grant, if 65% of students install the energy-efficient items and provide proof of installation.

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Take The WRD Water Recycling and Environmental Tour 

The SBESC team recently took a field trip to learn more about how the Water Replenishment District (WRD) replenishes groundwater with recycled water and storm water capture. 

The WRD's Albert Robles Center in Pico Rivera is a multipurpose and multi-benefit site. Its state-of-the-art Advanced Water Treatment Facility, a fully digital Learning Center, and a water-efficient Demonstration Garden, encapsulates its commitment to the community.

SBESC partners with West Basin Municipal Water District, Los Angeles County Sanitation District and Southern California Regional Energy Network accompanied SBESC on the tour.

Click Here to See Our Partners' Tour

Click Here to Request a Group Tour

Torrance Residents: Get a Rebate And Prevent Wasteful Water Use

The City of Torrance is currently in Level 1 of its Citywide Water Conservation Ordinance. Level 1 of the ordinance means there are new watering hours, watering times, and watering days. Save Money with residential rebates.

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Register Today For Your Free Rain Barrel From West Basin

The West Basin Rain Barrel Program is offering customers in their service area up to two free, 50-gallon rain barrels, valued at $80 each, as a way to save water and reduce storm water runoff with five event dates to choose from. 

Click Here for Dates And to Register

Earn a $5 toll credit using Metro ExpressLanes Transit Rewards program

Frequent transit riders and FasTrak accountholders can earn a $5 toll credit to use on the on I-10 and I-110 Metro ExpressLanes through the Transit Rewards program.

To receive toll credit, transit riders must use their registered TAP card and take 16 one-way trips during peak hours along the I-10 El Monte Busway or I-110 Harbor Transitway.

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Eat Your Leftover's and Contribute to Global Climate Change

Every day, 4,000 tons of food waste are generated in Los Angeles County.

This food waste includes dinner scraps as well as spoiled fruit and vegetables from grocery stores and restaurants. Decomposition of food waste (organic material) in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

In a landfill, this decomposition takes decades and even in well-controlled landfills like ours, some of the methane leaks into the atmosphere.

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Click Here to Take a Sanitation Public Tour

LADWP Customers Can Receive Up to 300 Gallons of Recycled Water for Watering Trees and Shrubs

Recycled water helps promote conservation by offsetting demand for precious drinking water.

Customers may use recycled water only for landscaping purposes, such as maintaining trees, shrubs, gardens, and lawns, and to water edible fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

All edible items must be washed with drinking water before consumption. To be eligible to receive free recycled water at the fill station, customers must complete a brief training class before filling up. Upon completion, participants can receive up to 300 gallons of disinfected tertiary recycled water per visit.

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