About Rain Gardens
Benefits of a Rain Garden
Besides reducing stormwater pollutants, preventing excessive flooding, and improving water quality for wildlife and recreational users, rain gardens:
1. Create habitat for wildlife such as birds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.
2. Promote groundwater recharge, a process that occurs when rain or snow melt is absorbed into the ground and becomes groundwater.
3. Provide a creative form of landscaping different from the traditional lawn while providing treatment for pollutants associated with stormwater.
4. Require less maintenance than lawns because they do not need to be mowed, fertilized or watered once they are established.
5. Increase property value with attractive landscaping designs.
6. Reduce storm drain overflows when adopted on a community or neighborhood scale.