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Tag: stormwater management

  • Wednesday, October 28, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Landscaping for Healthy Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Ponds Webinar

    Rain gardens and waterside buffer gardens are a joy to see, but beauty is only where their benefits begin. If properly designed, these landscapes protect water bodies from polluted runoff and help control erosion. When designed with native flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees, waterside gardens can also provide extraordinary support for native birds, butterflies, bees, and other wildlife. This online presentation offers an introduction to how we can manage stormwater to benefit of ourselves, our communities, and wildlife. Extensive resource handout and plant lists included. This program will be held virtually on October 28 at 6:30 pm. Once you register you will receive a Zoom link in the confirmation. This webinar will also be RECORDED and available for 2 months to all registrants. $10 for Tower Hill members, $15 for non-members. Register at www.towerhillbg.org


    Kathy Connolly is a landscape designer who specializes in naturalized designs, low-impact techniques, and native plants for homeowners, municipalities, and other organizations. Kathy has a master’s degree in landscape planning and design from the Conway School in Easthampton, MA. She completed the advanced master gardener program and is an Accredited Organic Land Care Professional through NOFA. She is an active member of the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group (CIPWG). She is a regular columnist for The Day community papers which circulate throughout southeastern Connecticut and has written about lawn alternatives for The Spruce/About.com. She gives about 25 talks and workshops each year for conservation organizations, master gardeners, museums, libraries, land trusts, and garden clubs. Her website is www.SpeakingofLandscapes.com.

  • Friday, May 29, 10:30 am – 1;30 PM – Our Future with Water: Stormwater Management Strategies Webinar

    Based on decades of experience, this Native Plan Trust stormwater management guide will address rain harvesting, permeable pavements, green roofs, bioswales and rain gardens, and tree planting. You will learn simple methods to capture and reuse stormwater and to slow stormwater runoff for the healthiest plants and landscapes. This May 29 class at 10:30 – 1:30 is now offered as a live webinar, led by Trevor Smith. $45 for NPT members, $54 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/our-future-water-stormwater-management-strategies/

  • Wednesday, February 18, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Green City, Clean Waters: The Philadelphia Story

    Mark Focht is the First Deputy Commissioner for Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, the Immediate Past President for the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and a fellow of the ASLA. He completed a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University and received a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts. He is a licensed landscape architect in the state of Pennsylvania.

    Focht will present his keynote address titled Green City, Clean Waters: The Philadelphia Story, in the Fishbowl of the Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, on Wednesday, February 18 from 5:30 – 7 The lecture will focus on the innovative and strategic green stormwater management practices of the City of Philadelphia. Join the BAC to hear about how Focht helped the city accomplish a revitalization and stewardship plan that has beneficially impacted the way urban communities handle stormwater. From Focht we will also hear about the important partnerships and public outreach that have contributed to the success of his leadership and Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters Plan.

    This lecture is sponsored by the student chapter of the ASLA. For more information email Olivia Fragale at sasla@the-bac.edu.

  • Wednesday, April 30, 8:30 am – 2:00 pm – Keeping Clean Water in Your Community

    Learn innovative techniques for meeting stormwater requirements, protecting marine resources, and managing green spaces, in this free seminar to be held Wednesday, April 30 from 8:30 – 2 at the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station, 1 State Bog Road, East Wareham. The event is sponsored by the Buzzards Bay Coalition (www.savebuzzardsbay.org) and features the following panel:

    Solving the Stormwater Management Puzzle: Joe Costa, Executive Director, Buzzards Bay National Estuary Project
    Protecting Marine Resources: Neil Churchill, Marine Fisheries Biologist, Massachusetts Dept. of Fish & Game
    Clean Water Landscaping: Mike Talbot, Ecological Lawn Care

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  • Thursday, May 20, 4:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Rain Gardens in Successful Stormwater Management

    A program entitled Rain Gardens in Successful Stormwater Management, co-sponsored by the Ecological Landscaping Association and the Massachusetts Watershed Coalition will take place Thursday, May 20, from 4:30 – 8 pm, at the Doyle Conservation Center. 325 Lindell Avenue, in Leominster.  The participation fee is $20 for ELA Members, and $25 for non-members.

    Explore the possibilities of improved water quality through collaborative efforts at storm water management.  Partnerships among city officials, community groups, businesses, state and federal agencies, and the Massachusetts Watershed Coalition are restoring Monoosnoc Brook in Leominster.  Rapid runoff had increased frequent flooding that erodes stream banks, and dirty, oily storm water deposited into the brook created lethal conditions for stream life.  Thirty-two rain gardens, tree box filters and bio-retention areas are now helping to cleanse runoff from streets and parking lots.  Designs for additional treatment practices, including a constructed storm water wetland, will be installed and continue to improve Monoosnoc Brook and the North Nashua River.

    Starting at the Doyle Conservation Center and then traveling out to a variety of installation sites, tour guides Ed Himlan, Bob Levite, and others will discuss and demonstrate the successful installations of a variety of storm water management techniques.  For more information, call 617-436-5838, or email ela.info@comcast.net.  Walk ins welcome.

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