Regional Project Profile
Ricciardi Park Rain Garden  

Category: Implemented Retrofit Design   
Type of BMP: rain garden


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 Description

In an October 2008 workshop taught by URS Corporation’s Senior Ecologist Antonio Federici, homeowners were given the opportunity to learn about installing a rain garden on private land. Participants and other volunteers then gathered to transform a community park’s sod basin into a rain garden.
 

Photo Credit: D. Fabry

Photo Credit: D. Fabry

   

Garden Design (Click to Enlarge)
Design Credit: URS Corporation

 
 Location

County:         Montgomery
Watershed:   Wissahickon Creek


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 Partners

Ambler Borough Environmental Advisory Council
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Philadelphia Water Department - Wissahickon Watershed Partnership
Schuylkill Action Network
URS Corporation

 

 Cost
Total cost: $5,120
TreeVitalize provided $2,550 in funding towards this project.
 
 Contact
Susan Curry
Ambler Borough Environmental Advisory Council
215-591-1551
suscurry@comcast.net
 
 
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