Home & Garden: Rain Garden
Date: 1/17/2009 Album ID: 674402
Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

This rain garden was structured to let runoff percolate slowly into the soil while both redirecting water from the building and preventing it from flooding the sidewalk.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Vegetation was chosen among plants that like to get their roots wet, and have a striking appearance with or without being half-submerged.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

An overflow area connects the two pools so that when one is full it empties into the other.
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Scobel Wiggins | Gazette-Times

Dave Sandrock explains how the dry pools in the front yard of Trish and Kent Daniels collects runoff from the rooftop and redirect it from the foundation.  When it rains, the pools fill.
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