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Building a rain garden in your yard is one way to keep rainwater from running so quickly into the street and down the stormwater drain. Instead, a rain garden allows water to soak into the ground slowly, where the soil can capture and filter it, and also fill groundwater supplies.

The Montgomery County website has pictures of some local raingardens, as well as tree box filters. One family in our congregation has also built a rain garden in the front yard, in an area where water previously flowed down over the lawn into the street. Not only did they build a garden, they documented the process, which you can view excerpts from below.

From The Gazette: "12-year-old Ethan C. of Rockville shows off the rain garden he constructed between his house and the neighbor's house in the College Gardens community"

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