Purdue, Iowa State and Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant researchers explain how to site, size, design, install and maintain a rain garden, and provide advice on plant selection, too. When stormwater runs ...

The grass channel (1) reduces stormwater velocity because the roughness of ... There are many considerations when designing a rain garden. The first is, what design storm event is going to be used and ...

Five benefits of rainscaping: 1. Easy to design, install and maintain. 2. Provide aesthetic appeal while blending into the ...

Mix in sand and compost to improve drainage and support your plants. You want soil that can soak up water quickly but also hold enough moisture for the plants to thrive. Native plants are best. Go for ...

make it difficult for stormwater to flow toward soil and seep into the ground. But by including rain gardens in your ...

This calculator allows you to simulate the effects that installing a rain garden, a type of green infrastructure, could have on stormwater runoff from your ... generated on your property by a 24 hour ...

Although other forms of green stormwater infrastructure such as rain gardens and infiltration catch basins may reduce mosquito presence, the Illinois research team hypothesized that rain barrels ...

A garden that also, not inconsequentially, draws 44,000 gallons of water from the city’s overworked stormwater system per year. That’s enough to fill the average backyard swimming pool three ...

The Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe has teamed up with the Watershed Association to build a new rain garden at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School. Zozobra event coordinator Ray Sandoval said the event can ...

Rain gardens are shallow depressions filled with native flood-tolerant plants. They are designed to trap stormwater and send it underground faster. Rather than overflowing out of rain barrels ...