Lucas County Green Corp Announcement

The Lucas County Green Corps is a partnership that will improve the region's water quality by demonstrating and installing a variety of innovative urban conservation and water management practices and providing education, job-training, employment and service opportunities for at-risk youth. The partnership will train at-risk youth to install urban water management and conservation practices. These practices will include a green roof and a gray water reuse system, tree planting, rain gardens, and rain barrels. The program will demonstrate effectiveness and benefits of these practices to the public so that urban stormwater conservation practices will be increasingly applied in the Western Lake Erie Basin.

The project will also develop a cadre of trained workers available to staff turnkey conservation services available to increase commercial nurseries and conservation organizations in providing conservation services to urban landowners.

This project is a partnership between Lucas County, Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership, the CITE Community Integration and Training for Employment program of the Lucas County Juvenile Justice Division, Toledo GROWS program (Toledo Botanical Garden), the City of Toledo, and the Toledo-Lucas County Rain Garden Initiative.

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!

Green Infrastructure Workshop, November 5th and 6th, for more information click here

Rain Garden Initiative News

The following are some of the latest happenings concerning the initiative:

1. February 26th, 2010. The Initiative was recently in the news - check out this page on the Urban Re:Vision website to find out more.
2. February 26th, 2010. It's that time of year again! The Rain Garden Initiative is selling rain garden kits and rain barrels through the Lucas Soil and Water annual tree sale. For more information, check out the Lucas SWCD tree sale brochure here.
3. February 26th, 2010. The new rain garden documents are here! Check out the NW Ohio Homeowners Manual and the new Rain Garden Initiative brochure.
4. December 1st, 2009. The Educators Page has been updated with new materials!
5. November 25th, 2009. We have posted the presentations from the Green Infrastructure Workshop. You can find them here.

For our news archive, click here.