Deer Creek Watershed Alliance News
July 2011

Greetings!

 

See what others are doing in their own back yard to benefit water quality in the Deer Creek Watershed.  Planting a rain garden or even a few deep-rooted native plants in your yard can help keep the streams in our watershed clean.

 

Annunziata Church & School Rain Garden Project

Deer Creek Watershed Alliance partners with Boy Scouts 

 

Eagle Scout Project
Onlookers from the Annunziata School gather around to learn more about the newly planted rain garden from Joe Milton, Eagle Scout, John Grimm, MSD,         and Karla Wilson, DCWA.
 

 

  

In an effort to improve water quality, the Deer Creek Watershed Alliance (DCWA) and Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) partnered with Boy Scout Troop 344 to install a new rain garden in the Deer Creek Watershed.  This rain garden consists of 127 square feet of native plantings and is ... see more .


If you have a rain garden, tell us about it

 

 

 

 

Have a great summer and stay tuned to deercreekalliance.org to keep posted on this and other plant based projects in the watershed!

 

Sincerely,

 

Rick Holton

Chairman

Deer Creek Watershed Friends

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The Deer Creek Watershed Alliance is a project of Missouri Botanical Garden and is  funded by project partners, the Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation, and US EPA Region 7 through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (subgrant number G09-NPS-13), under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.