Sustainable Ballard

06 Oct Sustainable Ballard

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SPU’s booth at Sustainable Ballard street fair. September, 2013

At Last Sunday’s sustainable living fair, Nancy and I took turns volunteering to advocate for the Seattle Public Utility’s storm water remediation program, the one that provides incentives to area homeowners to install a rainwater catchment bioswale on their property.

We had lots of interest and answered lots of questions despite the pouring rain and despite having our booth located at the periphery of the park. We even got a few job leads from it. We are qualified installers of the RainWise system. It includes a combination of cisterns and bioswale landscape features that are identified as rain gardens.

Thanks for reading.

1 Comment
  • Libby Scrofano
    Posted at 22:42h, 15 October

    I’ve known about Dave and Nancy’s rain gardens for a while; they are beautiful, and I knew they were eco-chic. Recently, though, I’ve been learning more about water pollution, and the health of Puget Sound, and I have a whole new perspective on rain gardens and bioswales. I learned (on a Frontline special called “Poisoned Waters,” and the Puget Sound Starts Here program) that 75% of the pollution in Puget Sound is from storm water runoff! I was astounded! And one of the best things we can do on an individual basis is landscape wisely so our runoff is filtered through soil on our own properties. Thanks, Dave and Nancy, for making our city prettier, and our Sound cleaner.