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Lehigh Valley Solar Tour
Saturday, Oct 4, 2008  10 am – 4 pm

 

LOCATIONS

A. Bethlehem:  The latest technology - professional installation of an evacuated tube solar hot water heater.
B. BethlehemStrawbale cottage with green roof. Well-known green architect Sigi Koko designed this beautiful, energy-efficient building.
C. Bethlehem:  New solar hot water heater installed by the homeowner.  Do-it-yourselfers check it out!
D. Quakertown: This house has everything:  Solar electric, solar hot water, passive solar design, geothermal heat, a new wind tower!
E. Longswamp township:  This home features a solar hot water heater that has worked well for over 25 years!  The owners have real information to share about the long term payback and maintenance!
F. Palmerton:  This home removed from the tour. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Tour fee: $7 per car on the day of event

Provide your own transportation to and between tour homes (addresses and directions on reverse).

Optional pre-registration provides these benefits:

Ø  Discount cost of only $5

Ø  Receive a reminder the day before the event. 

Ø  No paper ticket –attendants at each home will have a list of pre-registrants

To pre-register: send a check for $5 per vehicle, include a phone # or email address, to: 

Lehigh Valley Sierra Club, c/o Solar Tour

P.O. Box 1901,

Bethlehem PA 18105

For more information:  email LVSolarTour@gmail.com  or call 610 554-5637

This non-profit informational tour is part of the American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour.  http://www.ases.org

 

DIRECTIONS

A – Bethlehem:  4198 Wellesley Rd, Bethlehem 18017.  From 22:  Take the PA-512 N exit    0.2 mi,   Turn right at Bath Pike/PA-512 N    0.7 mi,   Turn left at Crawford Dr    1.0 mi,   Turn right at Jacksonville Rd    0.2 mi,   Turn left at Muhlenberg Ct    236 ft,   Turn right at Wellesley Rd    0.1

 

B - Bethlehem: 2826 Winding Way, Bethlehem 18017. From home A: Head south on Wellesley d toward Muhlenberg Ct    0.1 mi,   Turn left at Muhlenberg Ct    236 ft,   Turn right at Jacksonville Rd    0.2 mi,   Turn left at Crawford Dr      1.0 mi,   Turn right at Bath Pike/PA-512,   Continue to follow PA-512    1.3 mi,   Continue on Center St    0.3 mi,   Turn left at Flagstone Dr    272 ft,   Turn right at Winding Way    210 ft

 

C – Bethlehem: 220 W. Langhorne Ave, Bethlehem, 18017. From home B: Head south on Winding Way toward Buckingham Dr   79 ft,   Turn right at Buckingham Dr    351 ft,   Turn left at Center St    174 ft,   Turn right at Bridle Path Rd    348 ft,   Turn left at Main St    0.3 mi,   Turn right at W Langhorne Ave    0.3 mi

 

D - Quakertown:  801 Creamery Rd, Quakertown, PA  18951.  From home C:  Head west on W Langhorne Ave toward E Moreland Ave    180 ft,   Turn left at E Moreland Ave    0.5 mi,   Turn right at Center St    0.9 mi,   Turn left at E Elizabeth Ave    0.3 mi,   Turn right at Linden St    0.7 mi,   Turn left at E Market St    0.6 mi,   Turn right at Stefko Blvd    0.5 mi,   Turn left at Daly Ave/PA-412,   Continue to follow PA-412    5.1 mi,   Turn right at Flint Hill Rd    1.1 mi,   Continue on Richlandtown Pike    4.3 mi,   Continue on N Main St    0.6 mi,   Turn left at Church St    0.3 mi,   Turn right at Meadow Rd    0.7 mi,   Turn right at Beck Rd    0.3 mi,   Turn left at Apple Rd    0.5 mi,   Turn left at Creamery Rd    0.2 mi

 

E - Longswamp township:   298 Longsdale Dr., Mertztown, PA  19539 (5 mi W of Bear Creek ski resort.)   From Trexlertown, head west on Hamilton Blvd/Highway 222    3.7 mi,    Turn left at Farmington Rd    0.7 mi,    Continue on Valley Rd    1.9 mi,    Turn left at Chestnut St    0.3 mi,    Slight left at State St    0.9 mi,    Turn right at Longsdale Dr    1.0 mi

 

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IMPORTANT NOTES!

 - Please follow all parking and safety instructions.

 - Upon arrival, check in with the volunteer or host.

 - Respect our site hosts:  stay in tour areas.

 - The tour sites are located throughout the Lehigh Valley.  Rather than trying to visit all, pick a couple and carpool.  Fee is the same no matter how many passengers per vehicle and one fee covers all locations.