I spent the last 25 years working in the wastewater and storm water treatment fields. We have to slow the flow, people! Rain gardens, swales, appropriate plants all have places in fixing these issues. You can either do this or pay for expensive pumping stations and folks like me to maintain them. Every homeowner can do their part. Your municipality or drainage district should be encouraging these types of structures.
Thank you for this excellent rain garden video. I first began attending these rain garden workshops in the Spring of 2005 after I purchased my current home in March of the same year. The process of building my rain gardens and maintenance has been an enjoyable and healthy way to create an environment for wildlife, friends, family and neighbors to come to visit.
This worked great for us. We connected the downspout from house, planted a lot of Irises and whatnot. The irises were the best part as the tall green leaves would move with the breeze. Many birds to our feeder and small little pond.
My neighbor did and when an insurance inspector came to asses his roof they told him because he was intentionally retaining diverted water runoff between the street curb and his foundation he had to purchase extra insurance due to increased risk of water damage. We filled it in that month and I got to keep all the rocks. It did look cool, especially with the lights he added.
If your soil doesn't drain there, you shouldn't make a rain garden, you should make a pond! Native clay + simple gley makes a pond that is very useful indeed for wildlife, birds, and also recharges the groundwater, since no pond is perfect and usually seep out the sides, watering adjacent plants.
I spent the last 25 years working in the wastewater and storm water treatment fields. We have to slow the flow, people! Rain gardens, swales, appropriate plants all have places in fixing these issues. You can either do this or pay for expensive pumping stations and folks like me to maintain them. Every homeowner can do their part. Your municipality or drainage district should be encouraging these types of structures.
Thank you for this excellent rain garden video. I first began attending these rain garden workshops in the Spring of 2005 after I purchased my current home in March of the same year. The process of building my rain gardens and maintenance has been an enjoyable and healthy way to create an environment for wildlife, friends, family and neighbors to come to visit.
Nobel prize should be waiting for you ! Great ideas, great work, and great IMPACT !!!!! Congratulations !
This worked great for us. We connected the downspout from house, planted a lot of Irises and whatnot. The irises were the best part as the tall green leaves would move with the breeze. Many birds to our feeder and small little pond.
This is such a high quality, engaging and informative video. Deeply appreciate it
Watch the truck at 11:24! :)
That's the way they drive in that town.
Amazing
Great!! What happens in dry summers with those plants? Do you have to water them?
Now I ended the video so question answered!
This would be an amazing addition to a Food Forest were it able to be made edible.
Except that you'd be eating whatever is in the runoff
My neighbor did and when an insurance inspector came to asses his roof they told him because he was intentionally retaining diverted water runoff between the street curb and his foundation he had to purchase extra insurance due to increased risk of water damage. We filled it in that month and I got to keep all the rocks. It did look cool, especially with the lights he added.
I understand they water the cutie orange trees with Frac water?
so nice
Thank you! 🙂
Vegetable plants?
Native Plants.. please watch 1 of Doug Tallamy's video on youtube
Thank you :) I just watched a webinar of his and it was so educational. A great background knowledge for my upcoming internship
can a rain garden be established in a front yard ditch for a house in town?
God Save The Orca
Doesn't seem like something I can do.
OMG :-D Imperial unit system - what a dumb way of measuring and converting :-D ... Divide by 27 to get bigger unit lol
If your soil doesn't drain there, you shouldn't make a rain garden, you should make a pond! Native clay + simple gley makes a pond that is very useful indeed for wildlife, birds, and also recharges the groundwater, since no pond is perfect and usually seep out the sides, watering adjacent plants.