Towar Rain Garden Drains: - Michigan Water Environment Association
Towar Rain Garden Drains: - Michigan Water Environment Association
Towar Rain Garden Drains: - Michigan Water Environment Association
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12/14/2011<br />
P a t r i c k E . L i n d e m a n n<br />
INGHAM COUNTY DRAIN COMMISSIONER<br />
<strong>Towar</strong> <strong>Rain</strong> <strong>Garden</strong> <strong>Drains</strong><br />
A Low-Impact Urban Retrofit<br />
Twenty percent of the world’s available<br />
fresh water is in the Great Lakes<br />
• “Don’t go to <strong>Michigan</strong>, that land of ills, the word means ague,<br />
fever, and chills”<br />
• Drainage critical to settlement of <strong>Michigan</strong> – adopted drainage law<br />
in first State Legislative session in 1838<br />
• Elected county official in charge of managing drainage<br />
P a t r i c k E . L i n d e m a n n<br />
INGHAM COUNTY DRAIN COMMISSIONER<br />
<strong>Towar</strong> <strong>Rain</strong> <strong>Garden</strong> <strong>Drains</strong><br />
A Low-Impact Urban Retrofit<br />
<strong>Towar</strong> <strong>Rain</strong> <strong>Garden</strong> <strong>Drains</strong> are in the<br />
headwaters of the Great Lakes<br />
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