The Wednesday Wetness

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Reduce Your Stormwater with Rain Gardens 

Arain garden is a bowl-shaped garden designed to capture and infiltrate stormwater runoff. They are created to receive water from natural rainfall, downspouts, and/or rain barrel overflow and sheet flow from surrounding areas.

Rain gardens are depressed areas that fill up with water when it rains. They have a specialized porous soil that can also hold water. Water fills the garden, then filters into the soil over a period of time after the rain. Water-loving native plants with deep roots help to soak up the captured stormwater. Rain gardens come in many sizes and varieties, from highly engineered street-side bioretention to large-scale bioretention ponds. . .

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