As a hedge against the certainty of increasing energy rates, managers of Merrimack County Nursing Home (MCNH), in Boscawen, NH, invested deeply in geothermal technology. Today, they and hundreds of residents there celebrate substantial savings and new levels of comfort and air quality.
It was back in 2005 when Hampstead, HN-based Water Energy Distributors, Inc. was hired as a subcontractor by the engineering firm, McFarland-Johnson, to design an all-geothermal mechanical system for MCNH. Work on the system — installed in several stages as the facility went through various construction phases — was just completed.