You will be taken to the Rainwater Harvesting Project page where you can vote for Boerner Botanical Gardens to receive a much need $10,000 grant!!! You can vote everyday, just look for the thumbs up on the right hand side of the page.
Project Description
Rainwater Harvesting Project at Boerner Botanical Gardens
Phase I: included a permeable paver demonstration area, wetland filtration area as well as a re-circulating stream.
Municipalities as well as the general public learn and see how to capture and reuse rain water.
The wetland created has also become a home for frogs, toads and turtles.
Project Goals
Project/Goal: Rainwater Harvesting Phase II
Expansion/Continuation of Phase I (of a) 35,000 gallon rain harvesting system installed in August, 2009; captures the rain from the 2.5 acre parking lot and 31,500 square foot roof of the Education and Visitor Center.
Expansion/Continuation of Phase I (of a) 35,000 gallon rain harvesting system installed in August, 2009; captures the rain from the 2.5 acre parking lot and 31,500 square foot roof of the Education and Visitor Center.
Phase II will show how a rain garden works in capturing the run off from the harvesting system during heavy rains.
The rain garden would educate the community on the many different ways we can collect, reuse and store rain water - eliminating waste.
We would like to expand the system in order to educate and capture all rainwater falling on our campus.
This award will help us complete our goals.
We will allocate some of the award for the design/installation of an irrigation system for the sculpture gardens which uses 100% rainwater from our system.
Phase 1 may be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zws0KU0Rmx4
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