Rain Garden Design, Construction, Installation and Maintenance:
Sylvester Powell Community Center: Mission, Kan.
| Date: | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
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| Time: | 1-3 p.m. |
| Location: | Sylvester Powell Community Center 6200 Martway Street Mission, KS, 66202 |
| Fee: | $10 per person |
What you'll learn:
This workshop includes hands-on installation of a rain garden at Rock Creek Parkway. Instructors will review opportunities to incorporate stormwater management features into park settings and address issues and challenges associated with native landscaping maintenance.
The session begins with a brief lecture and a question-and-answer period, followed by an outdoor hands-on planting activity. You will learn how to design and construct native landscaping, and help plant a new rain garden.
Please wear appropriate outdoor work clothes, and bring garden tools – a trowel or shovel – to help plant.
Topics include:
- Strategies to reduce stormwater runoff with native landscaping solutions
- Selecting native plants for rain gardens and stormwater management
- Testing soil percolation and sizing rain gardens
- Reviewing rain garden design and placement issues
- Evaluating installation and maintenance of native landscape
- Examining stormwater management and erosion control techniques
Instructors:
David Dods is an environmental engineer with URS Corp. in Overland Park, Kan. He is an advocate of “green” stormwater management and sustainable design projects and is the co-author of the book, The Blue Thumb Guide to Raingardens.
Kevin Slates, ecologist with URS Corp, has over 20 years of knowledge and experience in native plant habitats and wetland design projects in the Kansas City area. Having served as a Wildlife Management Biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, Slates has designed, developed and restored natural communities such as prairies, wetlands and forests in the Kansas City area.
Jennifer Blattman, is a natural resource specialist with the Mid-America Regional Council.
Registration:
- Register online and pay with a credit card
- Call 816/701-8234
- E-mail gti@marc.org
