Schools:
Duchesne County High School
Located: Duchesne, UT
Square Feet: 50,000
Loop Type: Vertical, Horizontal & Pump and Dump Water Wells

The Duchesne County School District is a firm believer in geothermal heating and cooling. The Duchesne County High School is the second school in the district utilizing geothermal heating and cooling. When the district decided to expand the high school, it decided to retrofit the existing school to also incorporate geothermal. The old school was heated with a coal fired boiler and had no cooling system. The geothermal loop field is one of the first directionally drilled loop fields in the country. The loop field consists of 4-300ft vertical loops, 3-60ft pump and dump water wells, and 70-300ft loops directionally drilled at a depth of 15ft underneath the football field.