July 2013
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and cooling costs, but helps mitigate pollut-
ants from storm water runoff ) and building
escalators were designed to function on-de-
mand, powering-off when not in actual use.
The traffic lights have even been converted
to LED systems and this alone has resulted
in more than 2 million kilowatt-hours of sav-
ings per year.
Waste recycling was also significantly
improved. Winchester explains that Day-
ton had adopted a weekly recycling program
many years earlier, but with budget cuts, the
city went to an every-other-week collection
cycle, and almost terminated the program.
