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Gibson Steel Rain Garden and Urban Stormwater Projects

This industrial site is the home of a metal fabrication facility, so keeping metals out of the stormwater system can be a challenge. Gibson Steel Basins reached out to the LTWC for assistance in 2014, and has taken on a new water quality improvement measure every year since. Work started with the installation of a … Read more

2Form Architecture Stormwater Project

When a well established architecture firm became the new owner of the building they had been renting for over a decade, they promptly set about making all the changes owner, Richard Shugar had been dreaming of.  Part of the vision was replacing the asphalt parking area with permeable paving, and reducing that paving to make … Read more

Essex General Construction, Inc. Rain Garden Project

Essex General Construction has remodeled their home building with a rain garden and native habitat project.  They have created a naturalistic landscape composed of a series of cascading rain gardens that manages 800 sqft of roof surface runoff. The project not only collects and filters water but also adds a beautiful foreground for a outdoor … Read more

Now Accepting Gifts of Stock & Non-Cash Assets!

  Gifting of appreciated non-cash assets can be an excellent way to support your local watershed, and come with some excellent benefits for our donors. We know donors to the council are connected to our mission first and foremost. But donation of appreciated stock and mutual fund gifts can also provide significant tax benefits to … Read more