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Stormwater Workshop, Field Visit Set For September 25 Near Harrisburg
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The Paxton Creek Watershed and Education Association and its partners are sponsoring a Stormwater Infiltration-Retrofit Workshop and Field Visit on September 25 at the Giant Superstore Community Center, 2300 Linglestown Road in Susquehanna Township near Harrisburg between 8:30 am-noon. The event is for home and property owners, members of watershed and conservation groups, garden clubs, municipal staff, and others interested in installing rain gardens, bioretention areas, swales, and similar infiltration Best Management Practices, and/or retrofitting impervious surfaces and existing stormwater control facilities.
Many benefits associated with these practices, besides beautification, include neighborhood greening, reduction in runoff and floods, diminished pollution, and groundwater replenishment.
This will be a hands-on, practical workshop dealing with how BMPs work, how to figure design details, when a permit is needed, where to get what materials, cost savings, and maintenance issues.
The format will be brief background talks, a roundtable discussion by local people with practical experience, and a visit to a nearby site for discussing real-world items and actions mentioned in the workshop
The event is sponsored by Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Dauphin County Conservation District, Debra Kirkpatrick Landscape Architect, Harrisburg Area Civic Garden Center, Harrisburg Area Community College, New Baldwin Corridor Coalition, Paxton Creek Watershed & Education Association, and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
To register or for more information, visit local is available at local garden centers, visit the Paxton Creek Watershed website, send email to: info@paxtoncreek.org or call 717-545-1336. The registration fee is $5.
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9/20/2010 |
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