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Greetings!
Did you know putting in a large scale rain garden or bio-retention system to capture run-off from impervious surfaces can help keep the streams in our watershed clean? Check out this rain garden the City of Clayton recently installed to benefit water quality in Deer Creek! |
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Shaw Park Rain Garden Project
Deer Creek Watershed Alliance partners with City of Clayton
 | | Wild Petunias in bloom in a newly planted rain garden that captures storm water from this playground in Shaw Park. |
In an effort to improve water quality, the City of Clayton installed a new rain garden in the Deer Creek Watershed in the spring of 2011 in partnership with Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) and the Deer Creek Watershed Alliance (DCWA). Located in Shaw Park, a 43 acre park located in the Clayton Central Business District, the Shaw Park Rain Garden is ... see more .
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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. |
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