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Smart Meters

 

Welcome to the MID Victory Garden

February in the Victory Garden

Digital smart meters will do their part to spare the air. When meter readers no longer routinely visit your home, MID will drive about 200,000 fewer miles annually. Each year, smart meters will keep an estimated 100 pounds of particulates out of Central Valley air, along with 300-320 pounds of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. These gases are left behind in unburnt fuel. They react with other chemicals in the presence of heat and sunlight to form ozone. (Estimates courtesy of San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District – thanks!)

 

 

About the MID Victory Garden

In recent years Americans realized a war is on against a new enemy. It’s called global warming. A scientific breakthrough could quickly end this climate threat. Or the world may be entangled in decades of struggle and sacrifice.

No one can predict the outcome. But after 112 years of resource stewardship and service to agriculture, MID understands a few things: That lasting change comes about one person, one plot of ground, one pace forward at a time. That seeds of change planted today yield a harvest of victory one day in the future.

Each month MID writes about one of the seeds we’ve planted in our Victory Garden. You can read about them in the MID Update (PDF), the monthly newsletter with our electric bill, or on this web page.

 

 

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Plantings in the
MID Victory Garden


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Modesto Irrigation District
Phone Number: (209) 526-7373
Street Address: 1231 11th Street
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 4060, Modesto, CA 95352-4060
E-mail: customerservice@mid.org

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