If you would like a rain garden in your yard, or know someone who would, the Sno-King Watershed Council (SKWC), in cooperation with Farmer Frog and EarthCorps, is taking applications for free or reduced cost rain gardens in the Swamp Creek. See the application form at the bottom of the page.
Money for construction of the rain gardens will come a $125,000 citizen Clean Water Act settlement agreement between the SKWC and Snohomish County for the County allowing construction of a 5-acre parking lot at Paine Field without permits or stormwater treatment. More information on the Clean Water Act settlement can be read at: http://www.heraldnet.com/news/illegal-parking-lot-highlights-silt-problems-in-area-streams/
This will be a turn-key operation for rain garden construction that will help improve the water quality in the Swamp Creek drainage basin. This is a onetime offer that will expire when the money is exhausted.
Minimum Requirements:
- Site must be in the Swamp Creek Drainage Basin;
- Site cannot already have some stormwater flow control or water quality treatment;
- Property Owner must commit to maintain and not remove the rain garden; and
- Site must be residential and not a commercial or industrial property.
To apply, please complete the attached application form. Farmer Frog will review the applications and if they find that your site is a good potential project location, they will conduct a site visit to inspect your property for suitability for rain garden construction.
All applications will be ranked, with highest ranked properties receiving the rain garden installation. Farmer Frog’s decision will be final. We anticipate that the selected property owners will be notified during March, so get your application in soon!
Click the link below to download the application (you may have to click through twice):
Landowner Application Agreement FF
This project was made possible by winning a legal appeal. We are able to do these appeals with your donations. Please feel free to donate to help us win more of these cases!
(picture of rain garden courtesy of WSU extension rain garden web page)