Welcome Home: Creating a rain garden

by Zinta Aistars
Published in Welcome Home magazine
Summer 2014 Issue




We live in a sloped and graded world. Rooftops on houses are pitched, sidewalks are sloped, while landscaping is graded to allow rainwater to follow gravity away from building foundations. No one wants a leaky basement or a mushy lawn. In the minds of builders and engineers, all that sloping and grading made sense. 
In recent years, homeowners and builders are taking another look at what happens to rainwater runoff.

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