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By Louse Bon helm
and BJ Vaijintine
Special to the
Rappahannock Nows
There’s a new method for cleaning up stormwater at The Link in Sperryville. A ruin garden is located on the eastern end of the old schoolhouse building on Route 211.
A presentation will be ►riven at RappFLOWs Sept. 18 meeting for anyone interested in building a rain garden or simply understanding how they work. It starts at t>:30 p.m. in the conference room at The Link.
Detailed printed information from a variety of organisations will be available at no charge. Additional information will soon be avuiluble at the rain garden site itself.
Under a grant from the Virginia Department of Forestry and with matching funds and volunteer lubor from RappFLOW (Rappahannock Friends and Lovers i)f Our Watershed) the rain garden has taken shape over the past year.
This specially designed garden area performs a dual role: it filters pollutants picked up when stormwater ilows across the parking lot and it helps to maintain the hydrologic balance of the area by slowing the stormwater and giving it a chance to absorb into the soil, adding to the groundwater supply rather than rushing away downstream in the Thornton River.
Tlu* Link's parking urea, at about 27,tHK) square feet, is the largest paved parking area in the county. Water Hawing unimpeded across its [>aved surface ends up in the nearby Thornton River, laden
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