Southside Community Land Trust

LID Type: Cistern / Rain Barrel

Use: Civic

Installer: Casa Buena Builders, Inc.

Designer/Developer: Southside Community Land Trust

Install Date: April 2011

Address: 564 Dexter Street

Town: Providence

Zip Code: 02907

County: Providence

Contact:

Liza Sutton

Community Growers Director, SCLT

401.273.9419 x25

gardens@southsideclt.org

The rainwater collection system at Southside Community Land Trust’s (SCLT) Dexter Street community garden system utilizes a shade structure with a 100 square foot corrugated metal roof that channels water into a gutter and subsequently spills into an adjoining 250 gallon rain barrel. The barrel is situated slightly uphill of the garden plots, so that gravity will provide enough pressure to use the water through a hose. The project was made possible by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. A similar system is currently being planned for SCLT’s Mystic Miner (112 Miner Street) community garden as well.

Additionally, a 55 gallon rain barrel has been installed at SCLT’s Somerset community garden (85 Somerset Street) by students from the former Feinstein High School in Providence. Students installed a gutter system on the garden’s shed, recycled an industrial barrel by converting it into a rain barrel, and constructed an elevated wooded stand in order to increase water pressure for the Somerset community gardeners.

Address: 564 Dexter Street, Providence, 02907