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Make Your Own Raingarden...

· Posted Friday June 8, 2007 by jamie

Heads up for a cool Pierce County presentation on rain garden installation. At some point we totally want to do this on the front planting strip between the sidewalk and street in front of our house. Lawns are so passe…

Rain-Garden Installation Manual for Homeowners
to be presented by author

On Monday Night, June 11th, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, learn the cutting edge!
Rain gardens are not just a landscape element. Curtis Hinman, WSU Faculty and Watershed Scientist, researches and installs rain gardens as one method to preserve our Puget Sound water resource. Vital for the 21st century home owner, low impact development (LID) specialists, and others stewarding the Puget Sound, you will receive the first release of the instruction manual. Use it to increase the value of your property and decrease the cost of yard upkeep. Install your own system or monitor a hired contractor. This session will be held at Pierce County’s Environmental Services Building in University Place just west of Tacoma. Refreshments will be provided by Stewardship Partners: http://www.stewardshippartners.org/.

RSVP by calling 253-798-7028.

Seminar: Release of the Rain Garden Installation Manual
Date / time: June 11th, 2007 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Location: Pierce County Environmental Service Building
To Participate: Pre-register or RSVP and get directions by calling 253-798-7028
Fee: $10 per participant includes materials and light refreshments

More information is available at: http://www.pierce.wsu.edu/.
Directions to the Environmental Services Building : http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/abtus/ourorg/ccp/gettingto.htm

Update: WSU Pierce County has finally posted the manual to their web site. Head to their Low Impact Development site to download the manual (20mb).


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  1. Can I still dispose of my Taco Bell Chalupa® wrapper in your rain garden?

    — Cole    Jun 8, 01:37 AM    #

  2. Oh, totally, man. You and everybody else!

    — jamie    Jun 8, 06:28 AM    #

  3. Very cool, thanks for the info! We’ve been looking at effective ways to rid ourselves of most of our grass so maybe this will help our ideas.

    — KevinFreitas    Jun 8, 07:01 AM    #

  4. Wow, their website is messed. Mind posting info about that Enviro. Services Building here on your site? The link you posted is dead and so is the one to info for this even on that WSU page you link to.

    — KevinFreitas    Jun 8, 07:05 AM    #

  5. Can somebody take lots of notes and post online? The D-Bomb and I cant make it to the party.

    Rain Gardens… what an awesome thing!

    — RR Anderson    Jun 8, 09:19 AM    #

  6. Planting strip, nice concept.

    My neighbors need to attend this seminar.
    The call it a “parking strip”. As in: let’s park our cars and kill the grass on our “parking strip” and we’re gonna let the weeds grow instead so that when things get really out of control we can use our weed whackers to throw up rocks and bust out our neighbors car windows and then we’ll not have the decency to admit that you broke out our window that took over two days to get repaired and totally inconvienienced us with our crazy work schedule but this could all have been avoided if you parked and acted like a regular human being you ignorant fark!!!

    — Mike H    Jun 9, 10:35 AM    #