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Greetings!
Thank you for your interest in the Deer Creek Watershed. February is an exciting month, marking our first meeting of the year. We look forward to seeing you and our guest speaker, Cindy Gilberg. Come prepared to share your valuable input towards creating a healthy Deer Creek Watershed.
Sincerely,
Rick Holton, Chair, Ladue Creeks Committee
of the Deer Creek Watershed Friends
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Rain Gardens with Cindy Gilberg
Winter 2009 Deer Creek Watershed Meeting
Tuesday, Feb 24th at Ladue City Hall, 4:30-6:30 pm.
Cindy Gilberg will present on the elements of rain garden design and why rain gardens can be an important contribution towards effective watershed management during the first meeting of 2009.
4:30 pm. Social and light refreshments
5:15 pm. Featured speaker: Cindy Gilberg on Rain Gardens
6:00 pm. Facilitated discussion: Moving forward in the Deer Creek Watershed
Cindy is a landscape designer, horticulturalist, and garden writer & speaker who consults part-time for Shaw Nature Reserve. Cindy works toward establishing a relationship with the garden and the gardener in an effort to customize each design in a way that works for both. Whether it is residential or commercial property, she combines design with sustainable solutions to create dynamic landscapes.
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 Coming this Spring: April 25
Deer Creek Watershed Day of Service
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 9:00 -5:00
Saturday, April 25 2009 will be a "Day of Service" in the Deer Creek Watershed in conjunction with regional Earth Day celebrations. There are already several clean up and planting projects in the works, in partnership with Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Department of Conservation, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, the cities of Ladue, Webster Groves and Maplewood, and the River des Peres Watershed Coalition. You can register now to either participate in a planned event, or to volunteer to organize one in your community in the watershed.
Stay tuned for more news on this exciting project!
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Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In
New Online Video Now Available for Viewing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Botanic Garden have produced an on-line video, "Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In," that highlights green techniques such as rain gardens, green roofs and rain barrels to help manage stormwater runoff.
The film showcases green techniques that are being used in urban areas to reduce the effects of stormwater runoff on the quality of downstream receiving waters. The goal is to mimic the natural way water moves through an area before development by using design techniques that infiltrate, evaporate, and reuse runoff close to its source.
The techniques are innovative stormwater management practices that manage urban stormwater runoff at its source, and are very effective at reducing the volume of stormwater runoff as well as capturing harmful pollutants. Using vegetated areas that capture runoff also improves air quality, mitigates the effects of urban heat islands and reduces a community's overall carbon footprint.
The video highlights green techniques on display in 2008 at the U.S. Botanic Garden's "One Planet - Ours!" Exhibit" and at the U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C., including recently completed cisterns. To watch the video, go to http://www.epa.gov/nps/lid.
More information on stormwater management is available at http://www.epa.gov/greeninfrastructure.
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About Deer Creek Watershed Friends
Our purpose is to assess and improve the Deer Creek Watershed. Membership in Deer Creek Watershed Friends is free; by registering to receive this newsletter you become a member. Please forward this email newsletter to your friends and encourage them to become a Deer Creek Watershed Friend, too. Deer Creek Watershed Friends is sponsored by Missouri Botanical Garden.
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