Woonsocket High School

Type: Rain garden

Use: Civic/Public

Installer: A biology class taught by Cathryn MacDonald and Elizabeth Shallcross

Designer/Developer: Students with the help of Mike Merrill (District Conservationist) and Joel Schmidt (Hydrological Engineer)

Installation Date: 2005

Address: 777 Cass Avenue, Woonsocket, 02895

A biology class at Woonsocket High School helped to design and dig a rain garden next to the parking lot at their high school as part of the Northern Rhode Island Conservation District’s Urban Rain Garden Project. The students planted native vegetation in and around the rain garden. The rain garden serves to collect and treat stormwater runoff that flows over the parking lot. The students then publicized their rain garden so as to educate the public on the importance of controlling and treating stormwater runoff.

Address: 777 Cass Avenue, Woonsocket, 02895