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New program will use heat from King County sewers to warm privately owned buildings
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The King County Wastewater Treatment Division is piloting a program that will pull heat from the sewer system and use it to heat privately-owned buildings.
It will work with Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., and is looking for two additional property owners to take part.
"It's actually one of the first in the nation where we've been able to have a public-private partnership to allow private property owners to connect into the public sewer infrastructure, to use the heat that's traveling in those pipes underground," Policy and Research Unit Supervisor Erika Kinno said.
Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/new-pilot-use-heat-king-county-sewers-warm-privately-owned-buildings/281-d4576cfc-1767-4060-903e-13f82dc624f9