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Every drop matters, every drop counts!
Clean water is important to each of us as individuals, but water quality is also a regional concern. And 10,000 Rain Gardens is a regional effort dedicated to educating citizens about what each of us does to improve water quality and manage stormwater on personal and community property.
After hundreds of citizen interviews, the work of local government officials and the agreement to approach these difficult issues with an emphasis on conservation-minded, "green" solutions, the 10,000 Rain Gardens initiative was launched in November 2005. Along with the initiative came a comprehensive public education plan to help citizens learn about their role in water quality and take action. The "rain garden," a shallow, basin-shaped garden filled with deep-rooted grasses and flowers became both the symbol and central project for the initiative.
10,000 Rain Gardens is not a government program.
It is a rallying cry, calling upon the creativity of citizens, corporations, educators, and non-profit organizations to join with government to voluntarily reduce the amount of stormwater runoff that pollutes our waterways. In the past two years, several hundred rain gardens as well as rain barrels and bioswales have been installed and are working to reduce runoff.These personal efforts combined with commercial-sized green solutions yield a powerful cumulative effect in reducing flooding, erosion and pollutants in our rivers and streams. Working together, we will improve water quality and make a difference now and for the future.
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