Overview
What is a rain garden?
A rain garden is a type of bioretention cell created to minimize the stormwater and runoff being absorbed into the land. They are small, sunken areas that are typically 100 to 300 square feet large, allowing them to be able to be implemented in anything ranging from house yards to nature centers. Rain water can be absorbed right where it falls, in addition to filtering runoff water.
benefits
A rain garden can not only help your own house and land, but the entire ecosystem as well! Rain gardens help filter out pollutants such as trash, bacteria, animal feces, and other pollutants into water runways and spreading throughout the ecosystem. The stormwater falls through the filtered soil, sand, and/or gravel in the rain garden, where the clean water then exits through an output system.
