After observing polluted stormwater running from the large parking lot at Chimacum Schools directly into Chimacum Creek, the crew and our local I.P., Aliina Lahti, identified a pollutant-absorbing rain garden as a critical addition to the Chimacum School's campus and an ideal opportunity to educate students about stormwater runoff and possible management techniques. Granted with a week of community service for Martin Luther King day, we decided to design and build such a feature.
Months of planning came to fruition on January 16th, as we broke ground on the garden but were quickly delayed after being hit by a somewhat unexpected snowstorm the following day. Determined to finish, we spent the following Friday putting the finishing touch on Chimacum Schools' newest sustainable design feature.
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ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the Port Hadlock WCC Crew and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition for your excellent rain garden that protects Chimacum Creek. I have visited there often in past travels and adventures. You could inquire with Stewardship Partners, www.stewardshippartners.org, to have this entered as a rain garden in the 12,000 Rain Gardens campaign.
ReplyDeleteThe best to you all.
David Hymel
www.raindogdesigns.com
FINALLY a little action on this page
ReplyDeleteyou are all too beautiful not to post a million pictures of yourselves doing amazing things
Keep rockin' the restoration
(I think it's time for me to get outside...)