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Stormwater Management: City or Homeowner Responsibility?

What happens when 14 billion gallons of stormwater per year meet a hundred-year old system of pipes that is merged with the sewage system and is over 1600 miles long? As you can probably imagine, the result is really not pretty. But your Ecosystem Garden can help alleviate this problem, and we’ll get to that [...]

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Rain Barrels make a difference

by Carole Sevilla Brown 3 Comments

Water conservation is a primary goal of Conservation Gardening, where we strive to manage rainwater where it falls–in your garden. Stormwater runoff creates many harmful impacts on the environment, including flooding, streambank erosion, and a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more about Managing Rainwater in the Conservation Garden here, and also Resources [...]

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Managing Rainwater in the Conservation Garden

by Carole Sevilla Brown 6 Comments

As the recent flooding in Missouri has so tragically shown, storm water management is an issue that must receive serious attention. As rampant development continues in this country, the earth is being smothered under the impervious surfaces of our buildings, roofs, driveways, streets, parking lots, and shopping centers. Our current method of dealing with the [...]