ReducingStormwaterImpacts inHeavily
DevelopedAreas; WinooskiRainGarden Project
Wi n o o s k i R a i n G a r d e n P r o j e c t
S e p t e m b e r
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The Winooski Rain Garden project
was developed through a partnership between
UVM Extension Lake...
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ReducingStormwaterImpacts inHeavily
DevelopedAreas; WinooskiRainGarden Project
Wi n o o s k i R a i n G a r d e n P r o j e c t
S e p t e m b e r
2 0 0 7
The Winooski Rain Garden project
was developed through a partnership between
UVM Extension Lake Champlain Sea Grant
program’s NEMO program and the city of
Winooski.
A study of the Morehouse Brook
found it to be severely impaired by stormwater inputs just below Mallets Bay Avenue.
Winooski, a historic city that is heavily developed, has little area to build traditional engineered stormwater facilities.
In the process of
looking for an alternative way to reduce the
stormwater inputs to the Morehouse Brook,
the rain garden project was developed to demonstrate to residence and business owners the
low cost and low maintenance practice to
manage their stormwater runoff.
Rain gardens originate from the
stormwater practice called bio-infiltration or
bio-retention.
This practice mimics an upland
forest’s natural functions of interception,
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