The Oregon ARNG’s Camp Rilea was selected as
the pilot installation for net zero water use. A net zero
water installation limits the consumption of fresh-
water resources and returns water back to the same
watershed so as not to deplete the groundwater and
surface water resources of that region in quantity and
quality over the course of a year. In addition, the OR
ARNG has volunteered to pilot a unique and challeng-
ing Net Zero Energy Initiative, which includes all of
their installations across the state. The OR ARNG has
already laid the groundwork by installing several so-
lar photovoltaic (PV) arrays on various sites through-
out the state. The 103 KW capacity solar PV array at
their recently completed Ontario Readiness Center is
anticipated to make that site the first Net Zero energy
site in the ARNG once the data is available. The OR
ARNG’s ambitious Net Zero energy plan also calls for
a 20MW solar PV array to be installed at Christmas
Valley, and a proposed 4.4 KW set of wind turbines
at Camp Rilea, where they are also looking at wave
technologies as well, up to a potential total of 20 MW
(Hutchison 2011).
The use of green remediation technologies by Or-
egon ARNG’s largest ever restoration project at Camp
Withycombe earned the FY 2009 ‘Secretary of the
Army award’ for environmental restoration efforts
on an installation. In preparation for a highway con-
struction starting in 2012, Camp Withycombe worked
to clean up the proposed highway corridor and trans-
fer the land to the state. The area to be transferred
included six former training ranges. Though closed
for live-fire training in the 1990s, the former ranges
accumulated lead bullets during their use of approxi-
mately 100 years. If Camp Withycombe had used a
traditional approach to site cleanup, more than 30,000
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