1. St. Martin’s Evangelical Lutheran Church - School

2. Stormwater Runoff

3. St. Martin’s

4. Osprey’s View DRAINAGE & STORMWATER RUNOFF IMPROVEMENTS 4
Priority Rain Garden Sites
Conservation Landscaping & Tree Plantings 4 4

5. Osprey’s View DRAINAGE & STORMWATER RUNOFF IMPROVEMENTS 5
Priority Rain Garden Sites
Conservation Landscaping & Tree Plantings 5 5

6. Air Pollution
Trees – Air Scrubbers
Toxic Chemicals
Clean Air

7. Stormwater Runoff Pollution
Stormwater: IN
Stormwater: OUT
Fish Kills: RESULT

8. Nutrients Nitrogen - Phosphorous
Good For: Lawns, crops, flowers, trees, shrubs
Bad For: Water Ways: Causes algae growth, it dies and uses oxygen, none left for fish, crabs and oysters.

9. Sediment Cloudy water blocks sunlight Underwater grasses can’t grow
No place for baby fish, crabs to hid
No food or oxygen from grasses and emerged plants, and critters

10. The Answer – Rain Gardens

11. Nature’s Way BUTTERFLY RAIN GARDEN
Gay Feather
Turtlehead
Black-eyed Susan
Cardinal Flower
Wild Wood Aster
Butterfly Weed
Iris Blue Flagt
Cone Flower
Columbine