Saturday, January 25, 2014

"workshop on how to build a rain garden"


Through a $16,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the town has partnered with the Charles River Watershed Association to create a two-year rain garden training program, the first of its kind in Massachusetts. 
rain garden at Parmenter School
rain garden at Parmenter School
The training is to feature a classroom component where participants will learn how rain gardens work as a natural filter for polluted stormwater runoff, said Pallavi Mande, who is organizing the program for the association. 
The other component will be class trips to a sample garden at the Department of Public Works headquarters on Fisher Street. The educational excursions, Mande said, should prove "a successful way to get people motivated, rather than just providing outreach on the benefits of a rain garden. 
"People don’t feel compelled to take action until they get a little more in terms of training," she added.



See more at: http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20140124/NEWS/140127939/1994/NEWS#sthash.9HfOjLUB.dpuf

The rain garden project is looking for a catchy name, you can find out more about this and submit your idea here  http://www.franklinmatters.org/2014/01/name-that-rain-garden-project.html

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