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* Rain Gardens What is a Rain Garden? Rain Gardens What is a Rain Garden? Rain gardens are becoming increasingly popular in the home landscape. A rain garden is a natural or dug shallow depression designed to capture and soak up stormwater runoff from your roof or other impervious areas around your home like driveways, walkways, and even compacted lawn areas. They can be used as a buffer to capture runoff from the home landscape before it enters a lake, pond, or river. The rain garden is planted with suitable trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants allowing runoff to soak into the ground and protect water quality. Rain Gardens What is a Rain Garden? In addition to adding beauty to your home landscape, rain gardens can also help protect water quality, by reducing stormwater runoff from your house lot. Stormwater runoff is considered one of the main sources of water pollution nation-wide. As watersheds become developed, urbanization and an increase in paved surfaces such as parking lots, driveways, and rooftops increase stormwater runoff causing rainwater to run off quickly into storm drains and surface waters. channels 雨水沟渠，槽，渠道 Rain Gardens ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Rain garden variations Rain Gardens 汇合成塘区 拦洪/过滤区 固定区 Rain Gardens Stormwater Runoff Can Result in:? Increased erosion.? Increased water quality impacts caused by pollutants in stormwater runoff.? Flooding – especially more frequent “flash” flooding. Rain Gardens Benefits of Rain Gardens In addition to reducing and filtering stormwater runoff and increasing groundwater recharge, rain gardens provide