Clean Water Week: June 3

How to Build a Rain Garden or 32 (Walking tour of Sagamore Village Green Stormwater Infrastructure)

HOSTED BY: City of Portland
WHERE: Meet at the Rowe Elementary School parking lot, 23 Orono Road
WHEN: June 3 @ 4:00pm

Please Note:

• This event is free and open to the public. Registration required.

• In case of heavy rain, wind, or thunder we will cancel this event and notify registrants via email.

• This event requires approximately one mile of walking with breaks built in. You can expect to need to stand for at least an hour.

Please join us to learn the key components for building a rain garden, as demonstrated through a comprehensive green stormwater infrastructure improvement project at Sagamore Village. This tour will have some helpful information for everyone, from private homeowners to industry professionals!

To help address water quality concerns in Capisic Brook, the City of Portland planned, developed, and constructed a comprehensive, neighborhood-scale stormwater improvement project. The green stormwater infrastructure installed throughout the Sagamore Village neighborhood and at the Rowe Elementary School property now treats 22 acres of developed watershed while also providing ancillary benefits such as streetscape beautification and traffic calming.

Join us on a tour of the neighborhood to see some of the 32 bioretention cells and a subsurface sand filter system that were constructed as part of this project. Along the way, we’ll discuss some of the challenges this project faced and share the lessons we’ve learned when implementing green stormwater infrastructure at this scale.

Learn more at portlandmaine.gov/cleanwater.