Build a Rain Garden and Contribute to Cleaner Water
Number of Rain Gardens in the Municipality of Anchorage: 89!
See more photos of exemplary rain gardens here!
Guidance for Private Home Owners
General Information Brochure - What is a rain garden?
Residential Grant Application - Apply for the reimbursement program - Get 1/2 your cost back up to $750!
Minimum Criteria - Outline of minimum criteria to qualify for reimbursement..
How to Build a Rain Garden in 6 Easy Steps! - All you need to know to build a residential rain garden.
How-To Manual for Home Owners - In depth discussion of how to build a residential rain garden. This resource is designed and written for the private home owner.
Guidance for Large, Commercial, and Parking Lot Rain Gardens
MOA Low Impact Development Design Guidance Manual - For designers, engineers, and landscape architects (See pages 9-20).
Large Rain Garden Grant Application - If you design and build a rain garden for an impervious area of 2,000 square feet or greater, you could qualify for a reimbursement of $0.50 per sqft of impervious contributing area up to $5,000. Grant agreement requires design drawings and calculations with application submittal. Contact the Rain Garden Program as early in the design phase as possible.
Preliminary Design Calculator and Checklist (excel version of Tables 2 &3 from the Municipality's LID Design Guidance Manual)
Acknowledgements
The Anchorage Rain Garden Program is funded in part by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and the Municipality of Anchorage Watershed Management Services. Thank you for making this program possible.
The Anchorage Rain Garden Program would like to recognise a School Business Partnership with Steller Secondary School established in May of 2009. Read more about the partnership.
The Alaska Plant Materials Center has donated several pounds of rain garden appropriate seeds to the Rain Garden Program for free distribution to people who participate in the program. Thanks to APMC for their support.