Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/01/19
1pm - 5pm
Location
Geneva Presbyterian Church
Categories
Site coordinator: Matthew Bertrand, Friends of the Rouge, (734) 927-4903
This Rouge Rescue, join Friends of the Rouge and Geneva Presbyterian Church to install a rain garden! The Rouge’s biggest problem is too much dirty water runoff during big storms. Rain gardens are gardens with a job to do: soaking up the rain. The Geneva rain garden will soak up as much as 830 gallons of stormwater each time it rains, helping to reduce flooding for neighbors who live downstream and improving the health of Tonquish Creek. Enjoy this hands-on opportunity to learn how to install a rain garden at your own home! Altogether, our homes add up to about 50% of the land area that drains to the Rouge, so finding ways to soak up the rain at home is key to solving problems with flooding and pollution. Pitch in at Geneva Presbyterian and find out how you can make rain gardens—and clean water!—part of your life.
Work tasks for the day will include:
Smoothing the garden
Spreading mulch
Planting the rain garden
This project has been funded in part through the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Nonpoint Source Program by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).