Here you will find information concerning the concepts of rain gardens, the design of rain gardens, demonstration projects in the Toledo-Lucas County area, and even funding for rain garden installation!
Rain Garden Initiative News
The following are some of the latest happenings concerning the initiative:
- July 1st, 2009. We have posted some new information regarding the upcoming Maywood Avenue project. Click here for the new Maywood page.
- June 10th, 2009. Missed the first rain barrel sale this spring? Well, now is your chance to participate in our next sale! Pickup will be on August 8th, from 9am - noon at 237 South Erie Street, Toledo, OH. Orders must be placed by August 1st, 2009. For more information,
click here.
- May 19th, 2009. Rain Gardens in the news - check out this Toledo Blade link for the latest install at the Buehner Center.
- May 13th, 2009. The Rain Garden Initiative and partners are offering a FREE Science and Civics Teacher Workshop that focuses on rain gardens. For more information, check out the workshop here.
- May 1, 2009. Spring has arrived!! We've updated our site with a new calendar and have made some changes (mostly cosmetic) to the the About Us page. Also, the City of Toledo has received funding through
the stimulus package for a large rain garden project! The Maywood Project aims to retrofit a street suffering from chronic flooding problems with bioretention cells, rain gardens, and rain barrels. Check out The Blade article posted here.
- March 31, 2009. The rain barrel and rain garden kit sales are now over. Thank you to those folks who purchased rain barrels or rain garden kits! In other news, we recently updated the site. Our new pages include a free Downloads Page,
Educators Page, and a Rain Garden Tour. We have also made some small
cosmetic upgrades. More coming soon, stay tuned!
For our news archive, click here.
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