Why build a rain garden?
Rain gardens not only provide visual interest to your yard, but can help our lake. They are small vegetated depressions that promote infiltration of stormwater runoff from your roof, driveway and lawn. Some are even designed to capture runoff from the street. Rain gardens help keep things like fertilizer, loose soil and grass clippings stay in your yard and out of the lake, where they can add unacceptably high levels of nutrients to the water, increase the stream turbidity or deplete oxygen as the stuff rots.
