Rain Gardens - Gloucester County Virginia

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OUTLINE • What are the problems? - Polluted runoff. • Reducing lawn size and using native plants - Bayscaping. • Slowing erosion and buffering the streams and creeks - Riparian Buffers (RPA) • Reducing waste going into landfills. - Composting. • Using a garden to capture and filter rain water before it goes further into the water cycle. - <strong>Rain</strong> gardens
The Problem What Happens to <strong>Rain</strong>fall? Before 1507 One house per acre More development leads to more Runoff. More Runoff means more pesticides, fertilizers, oil, petroleum and heavy metals in the Bay Courthouse & Newer Developments WalMart – Home Depot area
Page 1: Gardening for the Bay Which is real
Page 5 and 6: What can Homeowners Do? Current Sit
Page 7 and 8: Possibilities 2. The Next Steps •
Page 9 and 10: Root variety points to importance o
Page 11 and 12: Rototilled the area and then raked
Page 13 and 14: •Later that summer. Natives: Salv
Page 15 and 16: Resource Protection Area (RPA) Ripa
Page 17 and 18: COMPOSTING FOR HEALTHY GARDENS 1. C
Page 19 and 20: COMPOSTING FOR HEALTHY GARDENS Fast
Page 21 and 22: 4. Rain Gardens Rain gardens are a
Page 23: Deeply prepared bed - The soil in t
Page 26: Guidelines for Rain Gardens • No
Page 30 and 31: Usually it is best to place groups
Page 32 and 33: Slope runs toward the rain garden.
Page 34 and 35: Rain Gardens Can be pretty and inte
Page 36 and 37: A Rain Garden to Capture Runoff fro
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