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Cottage Grove board approves police station site plan and directs geothermal heating; asks for more solar cost analysis
Summary
Trustees approved the site plan for a new police station and instructed project designers to proceed with a distributed ground-source heat pump system (option C), while directing staff to return with cost estimates and grant/tax-credit options for photovoltaic panels and solar domestic hot water.
Trustees on Feb. 17 approved a site plan for the Village of Cottage Grove’s proposed police station at the corner of Progress Drive and Bonney Road and directed the project team to proceed with a distributed ground-source (geothermal) heat-pump heating and cooling system for the building’s mechanical systems.
Enberg Anderson and JDR Engineering representatives presented mechanical, plumbing and electrical sustainability features under consideration for the single-story, roughly 27,800-square-foot building. Tim Meeker of JDR described the geothermal approach: “vertical bores into the earth, probably anywhere from 300 to 500 foot deep each,” forming a closed-loop bore field under the parking area to serve ground-source heat pumps. Meeker…
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