Rain Garden Design Australia
A rain garden is a system that collects water from paving hard surfaces roofs and puts it through a filtering mechanism that removes nutrients and pollutants.
Rain garden design australia. The hot new trend in sustainable landscape design raingardens are taking off all over the country particularly in areas of high rainfall. The object of a rain garden is to retain stormwater on site where it is used by plants to create green areas which provide microclimate benefits biodiversity and wildlife habitat. A rain garden is specially designed to collect stormwater runoff from nearby sources such as roofs and drains and filter it to remove nutrients and pollutants.
The demonstration raingarden at the joinery was built by natural resources adelaide and mount lofty ranges jointly funded by the australian government national landcare programme partnering with the environment protection authority to implement catchment to coast a project focussed on improving water quality across urban adelaide and supported by the city of west torrens greening australia sa the adelaide sustainability centre and the conservation council sa.