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October 31, 2012November 2, 2012

Gresham High rain garden cleaned up, mural in place | OregonLive.com.

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West Gresham Elementary Rain Garden

Demonstration Rain Gardens

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Gresham HS rain garden

Garden design by Kate Hibschman.

West Gresham Elem students help plant rain garden

rain garden installation, hands-on workshop

Jamie disconnecting a downspout

Service learning volunteer event with Mt. Hood Community College natural resource students at Kelly Creek

A $200 rain garden grant helped this homeowner install one of her own.

residential rain garden

Kellyn Baez teaches about rain gardens – Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

Spring 2009 – Garden is installed and receiving it’s first rain.

Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

Finding snakes was a big hit – Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

Covenant Presbyterian Church rain garden

Botany class plants garden.

Garden planted by City of Gresham Watershed Division staff, AmeriCorps and community volunteers, and 2nd grade students from the school. Katie Boyd taught a lesson about rain gardens in the classroom before students came out to do the planting.

At one year old, native plants are establishing well and the garden captures and infiltrates an estimated 196,000 gallons of runoff per year, reducing pollution in Johnson Creek and recharging local groundwater supplies.

Rain Garden Bike Tour, City of Gresham

Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

SEED program from Mt. Hood Comm. Coll. helping remove invasive weeds

Fall 2011. School maintenance staff will water the new garden in dry months for the first one or two years until plants are established.

Jamie leads site planning exercise during rain garden workshop.

Rain garden installation day with homeowners, AmeriCorps volunteers and neighborhood volunteers.

Curb cuts around existing storm drains were used to direct playground runoff to rain garden ponding areas first. Gardens overflow to existing storm drains when ponding areas are full.

Downspout disconnection at safe properties reduces stormwater runoff

Parents, teachers and students helped plant the rain garden with native plants tolerant of both drought and standing water. Jamie coordinated a school Rain Garden Team to help design the garden and maintain it in perpetuity. Students learned about storm water runoff and impacts on Johnson Creek.

Downspout disconnection

Fall 2009 – garden planted and waiting for it’s first rain.

Kellyn Baez teaches about aquatic macroinvertebrates – Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

Jamie led City of Gresham Operations staff to excavate the garden to provide for a safe overflow during very heavy rains and enough ponding area to handle average Oregon storms.

Clean Water neighborhood block party

Mt. Hood Community College students help with invasive weed maintenance.

Marching band tour of neighborhood rain gardens during block party.

residential rain garden

Downspout disconnection

homeowner with rain garden

Drawing rain garden designs – Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

Homeowners who pledged to avoid weed and feed put up free lawn signs to encourage their neighbors to do the same.

residential rain garden

Drawing rain garden designs – Tualatin River Farm watershed field trip program, photo John Driscoll

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