Let’s Build a Rain Garden – Deborah Newborn, Sustainability Coordinator
New Rochelle’s Demonstration Rain Garden
During bad rainstorms, flooding occurs and storm water rushes into our streams and into the Long ...
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Let’s Build a Rain Garden – Deborah Newborn, Sustainability Coordinator
New Rochelle’s Demonstration Rain Garden
During bad rainstorms, flooding occurs and storm water rushes into our streams and into the Long
Island Sound carrying with it pollutants which degrade our water quality.
There are a number of eco‐
friendly ways to deal with this storm water problem and one of the most exciting and beautiful is the
creation of rain gardens.
The City of New Rochelle has created a demonstration rain garden at the Ward
Elementary School with the Ward PTA through the assistance of John Jay Landscape Development, so
that our residents can learn how rain gardens can help reduce storm water runoff and flooding and filter
out pollutants from the water.
We hope that this demonstration rain garden will inspire residents to
build rain gardens on their properties, as well.
What is a Rain Garden?
Rain gardens are planted to reduce storm water runoff by absorbing water into the ground.
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