Rain Barrel Program
Rain barrels are coming to the neighborhood
The CWNA has obtained funding for a pilot project to distribute 54 Free Rain Barrels including 27 downspout disconnects to keep rainwater from adding to the sewer system by keeping water right here in our backyards. Why should the rain from our roofs go into the sewage pipes to be cleaned 
by the sewage plant and be returned to us as to use again to sprinkle our lawns and flowers? Because it means that there is less sewage and water to be treated by keeping rainwater right here on our lawns and in our gardens.
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| Handing out the rain barrels |
The grant also provides some funding to showcase a neighborhood green roof (a garden on a residents garage) and a rain garden, where special plants with long roots soak up the water coming from a roof down through a downspout. In addition, there is funding for an environmental educator from the Urban Ecology Center who will partner to organize tours
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to the Center, to visit its green roof and the rain gardens, and who will lead walking tours to the CWNA rain barrels, the green roof and rain garden site.
Other possibilities include involving teachers and students from nearby schools in the project. If we are successful, the same private donor for this project will continue to fund the project in three nearby neighborhoods during subsequent years.