Rain Garden #1 Pre-installation, sand pile delivered
Rain Garden #1, pre-installation
Rain Garden #2, pre-installation
Site prep with Somerset County Parks Commission
Site prep with Somerset County Parks Commission, Rain Garden #1
Adding sand and topsoil, rain garden #1
Rutgers and NJWSA staff work with Somerset County Parks Commission to prep Rain Garden #1
Pat Rector, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, and Bob O'Neil, NJWSA, mix topsoil and sand
Somerset County Park Commission staff cut the sidewalk to allow for a flex-pipe installation to divert water into Rain Garden #2
Pat Rector and Jeremiah Bergstrom, both of Rutgers, mix topsoil and sand into Rain Garden #1
Somerset County Park staff used a sod cutter to remove the grass from Rain Garden #2.
View over the vegetable gardens at Van Derveer, maintained by the kindergarten classes.
Somerset County Park Commission staff hard at work on Rain Garden #2!
The soil here had a high percentage of clay and shale, so some soil was removed, and replaced with the topsoil and sand that was brought in.
Shale in Rain Garden #2
The size of some of the clods in Rain Garden #2.
Jeremiah Bergstrom of Rutgers Water Resources Program
The water will come down from the downspout, into the catch basin box, and through the flex-pipe into the rain garden.
The sand and topsoil piles are diminishing!
Removing a section of the sidewalk
The flex-pipe draining into the rain garden.
Catch basin box and flex-pipe setup
stabilizing the box and pipe
Jeremiah uses a line level to determine the depth of the garden and the height of the berm
With sod placed over the flex-pipe.
Rain Garden #2
Replacing the sod
Downspout that feeds Rain Garden #2
Rain Garden #1 after a thin layer of mulch has been applied, pre-planting
Rain Garden #2 after a thin layer of mulch has been applied, pre-planting
Caitrin Higgins of Rutgers lays out the plants in Rain Garden #1
From L to R: Kathy Hale (NJWSA), Rick Anthes (NJWSA), Lisa Dunne (AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassador), Aj Bozenmayer (AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassador), and Caitrin Higgins (Rutgers)
Rain Garden #1 after planting
Rain Garden #2, after planting
Rain Garden #2 after planting.
Rain Garden #2 after planting
August 31, 2010
September 27, 2010
October 1, 2010
Octoer 1, 2010
