{"id":21568,"date":"2015-11-11T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=21568"},"modified":"2015-11-11T04:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:59:38","slug":"clarksville-street-department-becomes-clarksville-montgomery-county-green-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/11\/11\/clarksville-street-department-becomes-clarksville-montgomery-county-green-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville Street Department becomes Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clarksville-MontgomeryMontgomery County, TN<\/strong> \u2013 Clarksville Street Department is the latest city department to become Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified.<\/p>\n

City of Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan, Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett and Chamber Vice President Melinda Shepard were present at the green ribbon cutting to congratulate the employees.<\/p>\n

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(L to R) Daryl Pater, County Mayor Durrett, Scott Bibb, David Shepard, Oliver Sykes, City Mayor McMillan, Jeff Bryant, Ashlie Farmer, Chris Cowen, Charlie Gentry and Melinda Shepard.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ashlie Farmer, NPDES Coordinator, Jeff Bryant, Civil Engineer, and Orville Sykes Operations Manager, worked to help the department become green certified.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reuse as much as possible, including the asphalt millings. These millings were recently used for the parking lot at the new salt shed on Needmore Road,\u201d said Bryant. \u201cWe are recycling everything we can as well,\u201d said Farmer. When Mayor McMillan asked if they were doing some of the same things at home, Street Department Director David Shepard said a lot of the employees bring their recycling to the recycling containers at work. Sykes joked, \u201cYou can find a lot of detergent bottles in the plastics container but it isn\u2019t because we\u2019re doing laundry on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the other things they did included, set points on thermostats, recycling of signage, turning trees into mulch through The Compost Company, saving water by putting aerators on the faucets, updating the Stormwater Management Manual and using Facebook as a means to communicate with the community.<\/p>\n

Chris Cowen, traffic engineer, added that the city was recently approved for a no-interest, federally sponsored loan to switch from less efficient high pressure sodium bulbs to LED bulbs. \u201cWe will replace 25% of the City street lighting; focusing on the highest energy usage bulbs that stay on the longest in order to save the most money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarksville Street Department serves all residents in the City of Clarksville through road maintenance, drainage maintenance, traffic control and traffic engineering. For details about the department, visit cityofclarksville.com\/index.aspx?page=179 and type in Clarksville Street Department on Facebook for news and educational information.<\/p>\n

If your organization has an interest in learning more about the Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certification Program email Michelle Newell at manewell@mcgtn.net<\/a> or call 931.245.1867.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montgomery County, TN \u2013 Clarksville Street Department is the latest city department to become Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified. City of Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan, Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett and Chamber Vice President Melinda Shepard were present at the green ribbon cutting to congratulate the employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[27074,250,1759,21410,21552,1740,825,27076,27075,1373,693,27077,6046,5919,160,10067,16226,8589],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5BS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21569,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21568\/revisions\/21569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}