Sedges planted into a shaped rain garden basin

Ecological · Infrastructure

Give the water somewhere to go.

Stormwater & Rain Gardens

Every hard surface sends its rain somewhere. Handled well, that water soaks in and feeds the ground. Handled badly, it takes your topsoil with it and dumps it, plus whatever it picked up, into the nearest lake.

What the work covers

What's included.

Rain gardensSited where the water already wants to collect, planted with natives that tolerate both a soaking and a drought.

Basin & swale cleanupExisting stormwater features that have silted in, grown over, or stopped draining the way they were designed to.

Drainage correctionFinding the actual path the water takes across a property, then reshaping it so it stops undercutting what you've planted.

Native-planted infiltrationDeep root systems keep soil porous, so the feature keeps infiltrating years after installation instead of sealing up.

Start to finish

How it goes.

Four stages, in order. Nothing skipped to make a number look better.

01
Watch the waterWhere it enters, pools, and leaves. Ideally we see the site after a real rain.
02
Size the solutionCatchment area sets the volume. Undersized rain gardens fail on the first big storm.
03
Shape & amendExcavate, grade the inflow, and build the soil profile that actually infiltrates.
04
Plant & establishZoned planting: species that handle standing water at the bottom, drier-footed ones up the slope.

A rain garden is infrastructure that happens to be beautiful. If it only manages one of those two, it was built wrong.

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Give the water somewhere to go.

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