Get a little greener, and build a rain garden!
That’s what residents around Pulaski Park did when Saturday to kick off the Water Environment Federations annual conference. Volunteers helped dig in the dirt to build the parks rain garden.
The $7,000 corporate sponsored project to sprout this garden will help to minimize contaminates that enter storm sewers and open water. The federation, a Virginia based international program, has dedicated is efforts to research, education and regulation of environmental runoff.
The goal is to get more communities around Chicago to also create the rain gardens.
I had heard of these before and was excited to see Chicago adapt these functional and beautiful gardens in their neighborhoods.
The event was called “Getting out of the Gutter” and for Chicago’s umph to go green, it made a footprint on the efforts.
There are a few rules as to how to build a rain garden, and guidlines on how to maintain one, but in all the process is relatively simple.
