Car wash slashes water use thanks to a Snohomish County first
Motorists may not know they're consuming around 70 fewer gallons of water with each wash, but the owner of Glint Car Wash in Marysville does.
The 80% reduction was achieved due to approval of Snohomish County's first application for a relatively new program called C-PACER, or Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resiliency. It gives commercial property owners like Glint owner Rune Harkestad access low-cost financing for water- and energy-efficient systems and other resource-saving projects.
Snohomish County launched its C-PACER program six weeks ago.
In 2021, the state Legislature authorized counties to offer C-PACER. A mid-rise apartment project in Ballard was the first new construction project in Washington to use the program, and the architect of a sizable mass-timber project in Bellevue last summer said the developer would enroll it the program.
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