Image Credit: Meg Kerr
Image Credit: Meg Kerr
Project: J. T. Owens Park Rain Garden
Location: Providence Map It
Description:
This vegetated infiltration basin at the corner of Niantic Avenue and Swanton Street helps prevent stormwater runoff in the neighborhood from reaching Mashapaug Pond. The runoff will flow to a rain garden and soak through permeable soils into the groundwater.
The installation will:
- Treat approximately 2.6 million gallons of stormwater per year.
- Remove 6 pounds of phosphorus, which causes algae blooms.
- Filter out sediment and bacteria normally transported by runoff.
- Reduce flooding and erosion around Roger Williams Park ponds.
Additional information about this project is available on the US EPA website.