Rain gardens also reduce peak storm flows, helping to prevent stream bank erosion and lowering the risk for local flooding. Rain gardens are beautiful natural landscape features that require less maintenance and fewer chemicals than lawns. A rain garden receives runoff water from roofs or other hard (impervious) surfaces such as driveways. The rain garden holds the water on the landscape so that it can be taken in by plants and soak into the ground instead of flowing into a street and down a storm drain or drainage ditch.�The plants, mulch and soil in a rain garden combine natural physical, biological and chemical process to remove pollutants from runoff. Many pollutants will be filtered out and break down in the soil over time.

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