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Board approves pilot biochar/biomass processing contract and site work at LaBarre Meadows

Nevada County Board of Supervisors · October 22, 2024
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The Board approved a professional services agreement (Mountain Enterprises, $90,000) to provide grappling truck services for a county pilot to carbonize large woody debris into biochar, leveraging partnerships with EarthFoundries and PG&E to process an initial target tonnage and test local biomass solutions.

Nevada County Office of Emergency Services presented a pilot biomass-to-biochar project on county property at LaBarre Meadows Road and the Board approved a professional services agreement with Mountain Enterprises ($90,000) to provide grappling truck services used to move large woody material to an on-site carbonizer. County staff and EarthFoundries explained pyrolysis converts clean woody material into biochar — a carbon-rich soil amendment — and…

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