The City of Rancho Cucamonga was awarded MSRC Clean Transportation Funding for the development of alternative fueling infrastructure and purchase of two (2) CNG dump truck vehicles.
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Both CNG dump trucks were purchased from Carmenita Ford Truck and delivered on March 11, 2008. All dump truck operators were trained on how to drive and operate the new CNG vehicles. As soon as the training was completed and the vehicles were inspected by the City Fleet staff, the vehicles were placed into service and have been serving the City ever since. The vehicles are garaged at the City's Corporate Yard located on Ninth Street. On October 3, 2007, the City Council approved the plans and specifications for the Compressed Natural Gas and Above Ground Fuel Tanks and authorized the advertising of the Notice Inviting Bids. The Gas Equipment System Incorporated (G.E.S.I.) was the lowest, most responsive, responsible bidder and was awarded the contract at City Council meeting on August 6, 2008 and construction began in March 2009. The station was completed and put into service in August 2009. Currently, refueling of the trucks is performed overnight using the brand new CNG fueling station located at the Corporate Yard.
The objective of this project was to assist the City of Rancho Cucamonga in acquiring vehicles with the cleanest fuel available for street sweeping and street maintenance by replacing older diesel street sweepers and roll-off dump truck with compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles as well as to develop a compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station.
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) helps reduce the emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. The City has been actively retiring its fleet of diesel-powered street sweepers and replacing them with CNG models since 2007. Each sweeper replaced with a CNG model provides at least 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over diesel. The use of low-emission alternative fuel vehicles is an effective strategy to reduce mobile source emissions. The emission benefits associated with the CNG infrastructure typically are assigned to the alternate fueled vehicles and not to the fueling facility to avoid double counting of the emission reductions. The CNG refueling facility is an integral component to the success of the Citys overall emission reduction strategy.