Solar Cup
Solar Cup 2009 was held in May at Lake Skinner in Riverside County.  High school teams design boats that run on solar power and compete in two races: a sprint competition and an endurance event. The different competitions test teams’ abilities to design their solar boats for maximum energy efficiency as
well as speed.

Metropolitan Begins Generating Solar Power
Metropolitan board Chairman Timothy F. Brick flipped a switch signifying activation of a 10-acre field of solar panels at the district’s Robert A. Skinner Water Treatment Plant. The 1-megawatt solar installation will generate about 2.4 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of clean, renewable energy a year, nearly 25 percent of the power used by the plant and equal to the power used by about 250 homes annually.

Metropolitan – a Snapshot
A brief overview of Metropolitan’s ability to face the water supply challenges that will effect California now and in the future.

Spring Green Fair 09
Attendees to the fair visited approximately 70 exhibits to learn about products and services that are available to help save natural resources and reduce costs at home and at work. An E-waste vendor collected old monitors, cell phones, and other electronic items that cannot be put in landfills.

Inspection Trip, May 2009
Tour of the Ritchie Brothers auction site, the Diemer Ozonation and Skinner solar power facilities.

Metropolitan Overview
Brief overview video shown at the AWRA conference held in November, 2008. Discusses water reliability and responsible stewardship.

Watch the Solar Cup 2008 Highlights
Solar Cup is an annual program, beginning  that begins in the fall, in which high school teams totaling more than 800 students build and race solar-powered boats at Lake Skinner, learning about conservation of natural resources, electrical and mechanical engineering, problem solving and much more.

Annual Inspection Trip
On September 24, 2008 Gene Koopman, Glenn Brown, John Morris and David De Jesus led the board on a one-day trip of Engineering and Operations construction activities and facilities.

West Tunnel Hole-Thru
On August 20, 2008 Metropolitan achieved a significant construction milestone with the breakthrough of the tunnel boring machine on the Arrowhead West Tunnel in the San Bernardino mountains.