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On News Channel 10 with Marion Gold, URI
CE GreenShare Coordinator and
Director of the Cooperative
Extension Education Center North
Kingstown Town Hall Demonstration Rain Garden
A beautiful way to protect Narragansett Bay and replenish
your water Supply.
This segment aired
July 3, 2005 and was filmed at the North
Kingstown Town Hall's Demonstration Rain Garden.
The new garden that adorns
the North Kingstown Town Hall's front lawn provides more
than a pleasing array
of ornamental shrubs and plants. It protects the environment
and serves as a demonstration rain garden. A rain garden
is a natural or dug shallow depression designed to capture
and soak up stormwater runoff from your roof or other impervious
areas around your home like driveways, walkways, and even
compacted lawn areas. In addition to adding beauty to your
home landscape, rain gardens reduce stormwater runoff from
your property and replenish groundwater.
Photo taken June 17, 2005
In this segment, Plant Pro Marion Gold
is joined by North Kingstown Town Manager, Richard Kerbel
and Landscape Contractor and URI Master Gardener David Renzi,
Out in Front Horticulture who installed the garden.
Also in the segment is URI Master Gardener
volunteer Hilary
Sowa and her son. For more information about this segment
see the Plant
Pro
website and news channel 10 website www.turnto10.com.
For more information about this demonstration
rain garden, click here.
visit our rain garden page for
more information on planning and designing your own rain
garden including a suggested plant list. For more information
about the Town of North Kingstown's drinking water resources, click
here.
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