Mahwah Township Approves New Rain Garden Design for Residential Stormwater Management

This rendering showcases stormwater BMPs at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum in Starkville, Miss. The site was designed by professors Cory Gallo and Wayne Wilkerson from the landscape architecture department at Mississippi State.
Rendering by Prof. Cory Gallo.

Today, more municipalities are adopting a zero run-off policy for residential development to reduce the potential for downhill flooding from overdevelopment and to help replenish the watershed. One element of that environmental endeavor is to improve the quality of water before it enters the ground and, subsequently, the watershed.

Rain gardens provide natural interaction between soil, vegetation and water to reduce pollutants such as gas, oil, pet waste, road salt, litter, pesticides and fertilizer before entering the ground.

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