Environmental Initiatives

Over the past year Kirkwood Mountain Resort has made significant strides with its environmental policy. Recent initiatives have helped to conserve overall energy consumption at the resort, protect water quality, and take steps to preserve additional wetlands. Since the summer of 2006, conservation measures have amounted to a reduction of 2.5 million Kilowatt-hours. The resort was able to reduce its electrical energy consumption by 35 percent. Further energy conservation efforts were responsible for taking 1,000 cars off the road.

Energy conservation measures: Purchase of 28 high-energy efficiency snow guns Replace 125 manual light switches Replace 200 Inefficient light bulbs with CFB's Purchase 100% biodegradable products for F&B operations Save over 2,500 gallons of water through hospitality linen reuse programs Purchase 100% recycled bags and paper products Invest $10,000 to develop Tahoe's only resort consumer online carpool program Invest over $425,000 to reduce traffic from the roadways by providing employees carpool incentives, subsidizing daily employee shuttles from South Lake Tahoe and leasing vehicles for carpooling Sold over 600 Green Tags during the 2006-07 season to help develop new wind power generation facilities contributing 600,000 kwh of renewable energy Invested an additional $5,000 in resorts recycling program adding four dedicated recycling dumpsters and 100 recycling bins around the resort

Water Quality Protection Improvements: Invest over $30,000 installing erosion control BMP's (Best Management Practices) Invest $5,000 in sweeping five miles of resort roadways Invest $10,000 in maintenance of resort's storm drain system Collaboration with county agencies to plan future projects that include permanent erosion control design features