Rain Gardens
Rain gardens are an inexpensive way of conserving and cleaning storm water runoff. Rain gardens can be easily and inexpensively incorporated into almost any landscape plan on both residential and commercial properties.
Rain gardens are low maintenance landscaped areas, usually planted with native wildflowers species, that capture run-off from roofs and paved surfaces on your property. The water is partially taken up by the plants and allowed to seep into the soil, where nutrients and chemicals are absorbed before the water slowly seeps into the groundwater.
Rain gardens can play an important role in maintaining and even improving the quality of the water in our rivers, streams and especially lakes. A typical neighborhood on Madison's west side contributes about 10,000 gallons per acre of storm water runoff to area lakes each year. This runoff carries sediment, phosphorus, chloride, lead, zinc and other urban pollutants.
Let Barnes, Inc. design and install a rain garden for you, so you may help to reduce storm water runoff and pollution.
For more information on rain gardens, visit the sites listed below.
