Flood Brook Union School
Roof &Wood-Chip Upgrade Project Facts
How can a wood chip heating system reduce future school operational costs?
- Avoidance of anticipated escalating fossil fuel costs
- Reduction of costly and unexpected future supply interruptions or shortages
- Wood chip inflation rate is anticpated to be less than fossil fuel inflation rates
- Equipment operation and maintenance costs for fully-automated wood systems about the same as a fossil fuel systems
Wood-based System: Advantages
- Carbon-neutral system
- In Vermont, 27 schools currently have systems and 8 are currently applying for state aid to install similar systems
- History of fuel cost savings
- Substantial reductions of our dependence upon oil and other fossil fuels
- Local/regionally produced and delivered fuel supply without environmental hazard risks
Be Informed: Attend the Public Informational Meeting
- 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 9th at Flood Brook Union School
Take Action: Your Vote Counts at the Thursday, November 16th Bond Vote
- Preserve the community investment in our school building
- Reduce the school’s air pollution emissions
- Purchase local/regionally-produced fuels
- Create an opportunity for a greater percentage of the school budget to go to education, not repair maintenance
Rev: 10/23/06