Building a Rain Garden in the Pacific Northwest

Building a Rain Garden: Keeping Our Pacific Northwest Waters Clean.

In this 32-minute video, you'll learn the important steps to follow to site, design, construct, and maintain a beautiful landscape feature that captures and filters polluted runoff, helps prevent flooding, recharges our groundwater aquifers, and creates habitat for birds and butterflies. This video complements the WSU and OSU handbooks on creating rain gardens, expands on some of the ideas in those books, and includes helpful resources for homeowners.

Learn about the Rain Garden project at http://bit.ly/eJKbMz.

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Science & Technology

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• WSU
• Rain
• Garden
• instructional video
• environment
• diy
• instruction
• extension
• washington
• state
• university
• educational
• science
• geographic
• seattle
• green
• tutorial
• howto
• gardening

[greenpowernow]

I like how the man in minute 29 spoke about how he was inspired do other things to reduce water pollution like taking walks and public transit instead of driving. Rain gardens are great and the major source of our water pollution problems have to do with our dependence on automobiles.

[SD70MACMAN]

Go Cougs!