Free rain garden workshop for professionals

Published: March 27, 2013

image by: Florence/Darlington Stormwater Consortium

FLORENCE — The Florence Darlington Stormwater Consortium and the Environmental Discovery Center at Lynches River County Park are hosting a rain garden workshop for professionals.

The workshop is free thanks to a grant from Waste Management, but space is limited. Registration is required by April 8.

To register, download the form and mail or deliver it to Terasa Young, Florence County Extension office, 2685 S. Irby St., Suite K, Florence, SC 29505.

For more information, call 843-661-4800, ext. 113, or email terasa@clemson.edu.

The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 15 at the Lynches River County Park Community Building, 1110 Ben Gause Road, Coward.

The program is designed for landscape architects, installers, nursery professionals, engineers, site designers, community planners, and among others.

The workshop will feature an overview of water quality in the Pee Dee; the benefits of rain gardens; rain garden design, construction and maintenance; and plant selection. Attendees will participate in a rain garden installation at Lynches River County Park.

The Florence Darlington Stormwater Consortium is a regional collaboration involving the Carolina Clear program in partnership with communities and educators from universities, state agencies and nonprofits.

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Carolina Clear
Carolina Clear is a stormwater education and awareness program of the Clemson University Restoration Institute and the Center for Watershed Excellence. The program’s goal is to minimize polluted stormwater runoff by educating the general public, youth, builders, developers, homeowners and government officials about how they can keep water in the state’s streams, rivers and basins as clean as possible.