Neighbors on 25th Avenue Southwest in West Seattle put the finishing touches on a rain garden.
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Katie Campbell
At first Todd Martin wasn't interested in having a rain garden built in his front yard. He was concerned that they might cause flooding or take a lot of work to maintain.
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Katie Campbell
Karrie Kohlhaas has become the rain garden champion of her neighborhood in West Seattle. She helped convince her neighbors to build 10 rain gardens on their block in this summer.
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Katie Campbell
Conan Storlie waters his newly planted rain garden. His wife Sabrina Strolie said she wanted, “low-maintenance garden with lots of color.”
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Katie Campbell
Longfellow Creek is just two blocks from 25th Avenue Southwest in West Seattle. This stream has been so polluted from stormwater runoff that most Coho salmon that return here die before they can spawn.
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Katie Campbell
This diagram of how a rain garden functions is part of the Washington State University Pierce County Extension handbook on how to build rain gardens.
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Washington State University Pierce County Extension