Archive for February, 2008

February 28th 2008

The buzz: Local winners at Northwest Flower & Garden Show - HeraldNet

The buzz: Local winners at Northwest Flower & Garden Show
HeraldNet, WA - 6 hours ago
A rain-friendly garden: Learn to design a rain garden at a free class from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm March 12 at the Lake Forest Park Towne Center on Bothell Way

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February 28th 2008

The buzz: Local winners at Northwest Flower & Garden Show

Everett Herald - Learn to design a rain garden at a free class from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 12 at the Lake Forest Park Towne Center on Bothell Way in Lake Forest Park.

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February 28th 2008

Senate Notebook: February 28, 2008 - University Daily Kansan

Senate Notebook: February 28, 2008
University Daily Kansan, KS - 4 minutes ago
By Brenna Hawley (Contact) Senate passed legislation to fund a rain garden next to the Student Recreation Fitness Center. The project will cost $15000 and

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February 27th 2008

Rain gardens an added prospect

Sentinel - The overflow from the rain garden is pretty clean and will then run into the storm system.” Rain gardens are usually designed with a depression in the center and a berm on one side to catch rain water and allow it to slowly seep into the soil.

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February 27th 2008

Mon. U’s Water Watch to clean up Lake Tak. - Atlanticville

Mon. U’s Water Watch to clean up Lake Tak.
Atlanticville, NJ - 2 hours ago
“At Monmouth University, Water Watch is working with the Urban Coast Institute to build a rain garden on campus to restore a section of Whale Pond Brook and

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February 27th 2008

Mon. U’s Water Watch to clean up Lake Tak.

Atlanticville - At Monmouth University, Water Watch is working with the Urban Coast Institute to build a rain garden on campus to restore a section of Whale Pond Brook and protect it from the impacts of current development,” Feeney said.

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February 27th 2008

From the News-Sentinel

FortWayne.com - ‘Rain garden’ could earn $100 payment from city The design helps trap storm water and reduce runoff into streams. By Bob Caylor bcaylor@news-sentinel.com Fort Wayne homeowners who build the right kind of garden in their yards could earn a $100 …

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February 26th 2008

Create a rain garden - Henderson Gleaner


Create a rain garden
Henderson Gleaner, KY - 2 hours ago
The one garden bed I’m most excited to see emerge is the rain garden we installed last summer. Rain gardens are a growing trend for home and business

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February 26th 2008

Create a rain garden

Evansville Courier-Press - “More than 90 percent of the world’s total supply of drinking water is groundwater. Once contaminated, groundwater is very difficult and very costly to clean”…www.h20university.org The temperature gauge outside my Midwest studio reads a brisk 5 …

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February 26th 2008

Group calls for 2010 city rain gardens - Kentucky.com


Group calls for 2010 city rain gardens
Kentucky.com, KY - 5 hours ago
A rain garden — a shallow depression planted with flowers and grasses –captures run-off from hard surfaces such as rooftops, driveways and parking lots.

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