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Item Smart Meters: Implementation and Use in North St. Paul(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2013) Bhandari, Vivek; Jayaraman, Sathish; McClintock, Maria; Wood, CharlotteThis project was completed as part of the 2013-2014 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of North St. Paul. The City of North St. Paul is unique in that it operates its own electric utility, in cooperation with Minnesota Municipal Power Agency. The city sought assistance investigating and providing information to residents, businesses, and elected officials about alternative energy and energy conservation initiatives, as well as identifying strategies for dedicating electric utility revenue toward green energy initiatives such as wind, solar, and geothermal. North St. Paul Electric Utility Director Brian Frandle partnered with five teams of students in PA 5271: Energy and Environmental Policy, to investigate such opportunities. A memo, presentation, and poster prepared by student group 2 are available. A video produced by the students is available at https://youtu.be/_9LpRwc1Im4. (Student deliverables from the other four student teams are catalogued separately.).Item Water Reuse and Conservation in the City of Rosemount(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Englar, Lindsey; Schultz, Christina; Wood, Charlotte; Bechle, Matthew; Lipscomb, Ethan; Zhang, Shiyue; Kebisek, Julie; Sullivan, Shannon; Wydra, Teegan; Hussein, Abdi; Kim, Alex; McCormick, Kelly; McGlynn, RyanThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between the City of Rosemount and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Minnesota may be a water-rich state, but protecting one of the state’s most valuable resources is a critical part of making local communities sustainable and resilient in the face of growing populations and a changing global climate. The idea of water reuse is especially salient for Rosemount because the city lies along a large pipeline that transports treated wastewater from the entire southeast metro area from a nearby municipal treatment plant to the Mississippi River, where it is discharged. The goal of this project was to investigate the feasibility of reusing storm water or treated effluent for irrigation, industrial applications, or other uses in the City of Rosemount. In collaboration with city project lead Andy Brotzler, Public Works Director for the City of Rosemount, four teams of students in PUBH 6132: Air, Water, and Health researched options for water reuse at both the community and household level and identified reasonable, cost-effective, and publicly acceptable reuse options for storm water or treated effluent, taking into account existing regulatory and other barriers. A combined final report and presentation from the project are available.