Department Spotlight

Thank you for visiting the Washington County Sustainability Division web page! Washington County is advancing sustainable practices in our day to day operations. Our Spotlight shines on a featured departments, divisions, teams, or individuals actively engaged in sustainable practices within our organization.

This month our Spotlight shines on: the Land Use and Transportation Department!

The Washington County Land Use and Transportation (LUT) department is one of our largest, more diverse departments. Our Spotlight shines on LUT's Transportation staff. They are dedicated to reducing environmental impacts in various ways. Here are two:

• Traffic Signals! LUT is in continued partnership with the Energy Trust of Oregon in replacing incandescent traffic signal lights (Red and Green) with light-emitting diode (LED) technology. That change generates fantastic savings in both energy and costs. The LEDs use about 10% of the energy used by the incandescent lights.
• LUT Technician Trucks! Our traffic signal technicians respond to signal outages all day, everyday. When they do so, they are diligent about filling their trucks with B5 biodiesel, which produces less air pollutants that petroleum alone.

Thank you Land Use and Transportation!