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Rain Gardens Installed in Ingersoll

Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:48

Students from IDCI helped install rain gardens at a new development in Ingersoll.

INGERSOLL - Nine rain gardens are being installed by the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority at a new development in Ingersoll.

Students from the IDCI have helped build the gardens which are designed to flower at different times of the year. Conservation Services Technician with the UTRCA Alison Regehr tells Heart FM the whole site has been graded so the water will flow into one of the 9 rain gardens.

"The water flows into these depressions and it will soak into the ground, so the soil that we have put into these rain gardens is very permeable, so water will soak into it very quickly, from there it will start to soak into the surrounding soil and any of the water that doesn't soak into the soil will go into an under drain."

The project is called low impact development and will also improve the water quality in various waterways in the areas. Regehr says it is a much better option than what they have done in the past.

"So in the past a lot of the storm water has just run over the roads and driveways straight into the storm sewers in the creeks and rivers and so that can carry pollutants and flood waters into the rivers."

Regehr says they hope the low impact development gardens catch on with other new developments as they will improve our local water quality. The students who were helping are taking environmental courses at IDCI and part of their studies was to help install these rain gardens.

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