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Officials Exploring Solar To Heat Upcoming GUSD Aquatics Center

Board members would like to forgo traditional natural gas heating for pools.

About a year from now, Glendale Unified will officially open a brand new aquatics center and in that time, officials will explore more environmentally-friendly methods to reduce costs.

The pool, which will be built at Glendale High School, is projected to cost the Glendale Unified School District $200,000 to $300,000 a year in maintenance. The pool will serve all of the GUSD.

Officials have recently hired Texas-based Jacobs Engineering to research a few renewable energy alternatives to providing comfortable water temperatures and maintenance, according to the Glendale News-Press, one of those methods may involve solar power.

Read more in the Glendale News-Press.

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