Senior Capstone Rain Garden

  • Location
    Buffalo, Minnesota
  • Status
    Active
  • Age Level
    Any Age

The Problem

The benefits of our rain garden will particularly focus on the educational impact and potential to promote environmental awareness. Beyond just students, this will be a step to solve a local environmental issue of rooftop drainage. The rain garden will mitigates the erosion that is happening near the building and our sidewalk. Iā€™m hoping when I am done some students will look at this and do a project on it. I really hope that this will get other students into science and understand the importance of civic engagement our community. This project has really helped me develop problem-solving skills. Another goal is for me to be able to teach and show students they can make a difference.

Our Plan

The purpose of this project is to create a place other than the existing mowed grass to hold the water so that it can go into the aquifer. The advantage to this process is that the plants grow well around the garden while creating beautiful scenery in the process. The rain garden also helps with the stormwater problems and provides education that can change behaviors and attitudes towards local environmental issues.

Themes Addressed

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    Education
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    Invasive Species
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    Migratory species
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    Project Ideas

The Benefit

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    People
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    Animals
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    Environment
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