Chester Library Demonstration Rain Garden
Vue d'ensemble
History:
The Chester Library rain garden was installed to serve as a demonstration raingarden to educate homeowners, business owners and government facilities on how rain gardens can minimize impacts to nearby waterways.
Type of Runoff Managed:
This rain garden manages stormwater from the Chester Library's rooftop via a downspout.
Installation:
Approximately ten Raritan Highlands Compact members were present for the installation of the rain garden in Fall 2007. Funding and in-kind resources for this project was provided by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program, Pfizer, the Leavens Foundation, New Jersey Corporate Wetland Resoration Partnership, Morris County Utilities Authority, and the Garden Club of Somerset Hills.
Plant List:
Big Bluestem
Cinnamon Fern
Red Osier Dogwood
Virginia Sweetspire
Maintenance:
The rain garden is maintained by the Raritan Highlands Compact.
Location:
Commentaires
Connections
- Mullica Hill
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- Millville
- Ewing Township
- Freehold
- Turnersville
- Ewing Township
- Newark
- Byram
- Sewell
- ClaytonUnited States
- NewarkUnited States
- Baltimore, MDUnited States
- LawrencevilleUnited States
- CaliColombia
- United States
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- United States
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- BaltimoreUnited States
- LawnsideUnited States
- Taiwan
- Mogi MirimBrazil
- BrooksideUnited States
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- ClevelandUnited States
- New York CityUnited States
- SpringfieldUnited States
- Moroka, SowetoSouth Africa
- HaddonfieldUnited States
- HiltonSouth Africa
- Santana de ParnaíbaBrazil
- United Kingdom
- United States
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