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Rain Garden Project
Student Awards Ceremony 2012
Rain Garden Project
Rain gardens reduce water pollution while beautifying the landscape. Rain gardens are "bioretention" systems, alternative stormwater management practices that use natural processes to increase the infiltration of rainwater into the ground and remove potentially harmful pollutants.
With its close proximity to Lake Wingra, Edgewood College is planting rain gardens in areas with standing water in order to reduce the amount of pollution running into the lakes. Research has shown that over half of lake pollution is caused by local residents landscape practices and not by agriculture. Rain gardens are an easy way to help curb this statistic.
Learn more about the rain garden project here
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Rain Garden #1
Rain Garden #2
Rain Garden #3
Rain Garden #4
Rain Garden #5
Rain Garden #6
Rain Garden #1—Construction, Spring 2000
Date Built: 2000 (addition made on South end in 2001)
Size: Originally 1000 sq. ft., expanded to 1500 sq. ft.
Plant List: Click here for an extensive plant list!
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Rain Garden #1—Spring 2001
Edgewood Rain Garden #1—See how it has changed over just a few years!!!
Rain Garden #2—Edgewood Drive Shady Swale
Date Built: 2001
Size: 600 sq. ft.
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Rain Garden #3—Front of Sonderegger Science Center
Date Built: April 2002
Size: 458 sq. ft.
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Rain Garden #4—Northeast Corner of Todd Wehr Edgedome
Date Built: June 2002
Size: 46 sq. ft.
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Rain Garden #5—Northwest Corner of Todd Wehr Edgedome
Date Built: July 2002
Size: 62 sq. ft.
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Rain Garden #6—Southwest Corner of Todd Wehr Edgedome
Date Built: April 2003
Size: 75 sq. ft.
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Student Awards Ceremony 2012
Student Awards for the Biological Science Department and the Chemistry, Geoscience, and Physics Department, held in May of 2012