disposed by the complex by 40 percent since inception, with an estimated accumulated savings of $250,000. Blue Hill Plaza has diverted over 9,300 tons of cardboard, over 2,100 tons of mixed papers, and over 40 tons of bottles, cans, and plastics. Telecom and Power Blue Hill Plaza features redundant fiber optic. There is fiber available from two central offices, entering two separate telephone equipment rooms within the site. There are two 69,000-volt underground feeders from a substation located in Montvale, NJ to an Orange & Rockland substation, dedicated solely to Blue Hill Plaza, located on-site in the parking lot. The two transmission lines from Montvale are encased separately in concrete. From Blue Hill Plaza's on-site substation, which is maintained by Orange & Rockland (an anchor tenant whose corporate offices reside at Blue Hill), there are two 13,200-volt underground feeders that power the substations within the building. In both cases, one feeder can carry the building load. (This does not include the data center power) There are two 20 MW (Megawatt) transformers. Additional 40MW can become available) The Montvale substation has three separate feeders coming from two locations within Rockland County and one from New Jersey. In addition, there are two separate transformer banks at the Montvale substation that both can support Blue Hill Plaza's building load if needed. Besides the normal two feeds from the NY ISO, there is also a PJM interconnect that is utilized by O & R to supply their New Jersey based customers and could be utilized to feed Blue Hill Plaza if necessary. On-Site Electric Substation and Generator Redundant Wiring for Maximum Reliability There is an additional 2,000 amps at 480 volts readily available. There is an additional 8,000 amps that could be available with the installation of additional gear. Gallery bluehillplaza.com References External links Buildings and structures in Rockland County, New York