Rain Garden is Finished at Three Rivers Community College

Sediment capture at front of rain garden

We completed the rain garden at Three Rivers Community College on Saturday, June 6th and it came out perfectly!
When Jenna and I arrived, the first thing we noticed was the sediment capture behind the curb cut. As water from the adjacent parking lot enters the rain garden, sediment is deposited on the flagstones and the water freely flows into the basin.


 Planting went very smoothly as the bio infiltration soil media was very easy to work with. Once we started, it only took a couple of hours to get everything in the ground. We gad a good work crew including Jenna and myself, Diba Khan-Bureau and her two children, and students Bobbi DesRoche, Chelsea Dubreuil, Nic Tedesco, Michael O'Connor, Troy Wood, and Jennifer Messerly. All the plants were purchased from Petie Reed of Perennial Harmony Garden Center in Waterford.

You can view Jenna's design and plant list below

The work crew for the day!

One thing that we did not anticipate was a deer issue! Jenna spotted some deer tracks in the garden before we started working which can be a huge problem! We decided that we had to put some deer fencing up after we finished up the rain garden to protect our plants.

Putting up deer fencing around completed rain garden

We will be checking in on the rain garden every couple of weeks and the students at TRCC will be caring for the rain garden throughout the summer while they work on their raised-bed vegetable gardens.

Garden design and plant list below: