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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.
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 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.
Photo taken June 17, 2005
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.
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