Help prevent odor, vermin, and stormwater pollution around your restaurant by keeping used cooking oil storage areas clean. All wash water used to clean kitchen equipment should be discharged into the sanitary sewer. Visit your City’s Stormwater Management webpage (City of Buellton or City of Solvang) to learn more about Stormwater Pollution Prevention!

Two easy ways to conserve water at home: 1) Install a rain barrel to capture runoff for reuse; 2) Direct downspouts away from pavement and into vegetation. Thanks for doing your part! Visit your City’s Stormwater Management webpage (City of Buellton or City of Solvang) or the Central Coast Low Impact Development Initiative to learn more about water conservation practices.

When trimming back vegetation, place all your unused landscape waste in your green curbside bin. Unmanaged debris stockpiles attract vermin and pollute stormwater. Visit your City’s Stormwater Management webpage (City of Buellton or City of Solvang) to learn more about Stormwater Pollution Prevention!

When you pick up after your dog and toss the waste in the trash, you are helping protect your pet, community and the environment. Visit your City’s Stormwater Management webpage (City of Buellton or City of Solvang) or Close the Poop Loop to learn the Truth About Dog Poop.

Southern and Central California’s remarkable number of clear sunny days and its east-west lines of latitude make it a great natural receptor bowl for solar energy. “We have the potential to become the solar capital of California,” says Don “Cam” Campbell. “Your community could certainly produce most of its own electric power and become a model for energy sustainability.” A father of three, “I’m doing it for our children’s sake,” he says. “Sustainable business and energy practices are the only way our world is going to make it.”