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Elk River Municipal Utilities <br />GHG Baseline Inventory <br />15 <br />ERMU Operations Greenhouse Gas Emissions <br />For the Baseline year 2015, Elk River Municipal Utilities (ERMU) pumped a total of 799,974,000 <br />gallons of water serving 4,762 customers and sold a total of 282,265,268 kwh to 10,499 <br />customers. Electricity sold by ERMU is produced by third party entities and the operational <br />emissions associated with their electricity production are not included in this report. <br />GHG emissions for the 2015 ERMU Operations Baseline year total 1,532.77 Metric Tonnes <br />(3,379,175 pounds) CO2e, an emission rate of 36.49 Metric Tonnes per employee (FTE), or 3.38 <br />pounds CO2e/MG water pumped. The City Operations total GHG emissions represent 0.35% of <br />Elk River community-wide GHG emissions*. ERMU Operation emissions are as follows: <br />ERMU Buildings and Grounds 1,208.62 Metric Tonnes (78.85%) <br />ERMU Vehicles 197.83 Metric Tonnes (12.91%) <br />Employee Travel and Transportation 123.33 Metric Tonnes (8.05%) <br />Solid Waste 2.99 Metric Tonnes (0.19%) <br />Total: 1,533.62 Metric Tonnes (100%) <br />ERMU Operations <br />Total <br />Annual Greenhouse Gas equal to: <br />30,074,661 <br />Cubic Feet of <br />Man-Made <br />Atmosphere <br />1,532.77 <br />Metric Tonnes <br />Buildings and Grounds <br />Solid Waste <br />Employee Transportation <br />ERMU Vehicles <br />Indirect GHG Emissions Not Included <br />The total GHG emissions captured by this assessment do not do not include indirect emissions <br />associated with ERMU food and product purchases, or with services provided to Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities such as professional consulting. On average, indirect full supply chain <br />emissions associated with products and services purchased equal 1 pound of CO2e per dollar <br />spent. <br />* Community Wide total as reported by Regional Indicators Initiative <br />Volume Visualization <br />The graphic above represents the volume of man-made GHG atmosphere produced <br />annually by the Elk River Municipal Utilities operations, broken down by category. The <br />volume of atmosphere is equal to a cube 311 feet on each face, with a total volume <br />approximately the volume of Orono Lake, illustrated to the right.60%