Improving Water on Cape Cod
A great way to reduce the effects of stormwater is through absorbing the nutrient rich runoff in a rain garden. Rain gardens facilitate groundwater recharge, thereby reducing the stress put on water bodies through preventing excess nutrients from being carried into the water bodies during storm events.
AmeriCorps member, Ben Howard in partnership with the Brewster Ponds Coalition developed the following walkthrough document to encourage community members to seek permission to install rain gardens on strategic properties. The document helps the citizen to navigate all the steps and forms that make up the Request for Determination of Applicability process when making landscape changes in potentially ecologically sensitive areas. While some details are specific to Brewster, the guide should prove useful to citizens of other communities, too.
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