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| Partners
of the Firelands Coastal Tributaries (Erie Soil and Water Conservation
District, Erie MetroParks, and Old Woman Creek Reserve) have
teamed up to offer several rain barrel workshops over the 2009
summer season. A total of five workshops, held at both Osborne
Park and the Old Woman Creek Reserve, educated area residents
on the benefits of rain barrels with assisting them in building
their own rain barrel to take home. The workshop is moderately
priced at $45 per registrant (includes all instruction sheets
and materials to build one rain barrel). Over 75 "graduates"
of our rain garden workshops are now proud owners of their very
own rain barrel. |
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| So
when's the next workshop? |
| We
wish we could say in the next week, but unfortunately we do
not have enough to hold a workshop. But not to worry! We are
hard at work scouring the local and regional countryside for
food grade barrels to hold more workshops. We have a few leads
and hope to be getting more barrels soon. Please check back
to our site for the next available class or you can always call
419-626-5211 to be put on a waiting list and we will call you
when the next class is scheduled. |
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| Erie
County Services Center Installs Rain Garden and Native Plantings |
| Native
plantings and a rain garden were installed with help from volunteers
from the Erie County Mater Gardeners Program and the Friends
of Pipe Creek Watershed at the Erie County Services Center July
14 and 15, 2009 as part of the Erie County Naturescaping Project.
This project was funded through the Great Lake Commission Erosion
and Sediment Control Grant Program to demonstrate native plants
and rain gardens to be used as a solution to reducing negative
impacts of stormwater run-off. This project is administered
by the Firelands Coastal Tributaries Watershed Program to provide
education to local residents, businesses, developers, and public
officials in the Firelands area. In addition to the installation
of the native gardens, prairie and riparian enhancements will
also be installed later in November of 2009. |
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