From: "Saari, Steve (DDOE)" <
Steve.Saari@dc.gov>
Subject: FoRCE: DDOE Offers Free Stormwater Friendly Landscaping to
Selected Dist rict Homeowners
> Hi all,
>
> FORCE won a grant to install the stormwater friendly landscaping
> demonstration sites described below. If you are interested in being
a > demonstration site (or in having your name on a list for the
expanded program to be offered in the near future) go to the website
listed below and sign up. Tell your friends in other parts of the
District of Columbia about it. Churches and other public structures
are allowed as well.
>
> Steve
>
> DDOE Offers Free Stormwater Friendly Landscaping to Selected
District Homeowners
>
> The District Department of Environment (DDOE) is soliciting
applications from DC homeowners for FREE stormwater friendly
landscaping enhancements to be installed in their yards. DDOE is
looking to fund projects that will demonstrate ways to reduce river
and stream pollution. Selection criteria will include visibility of
the home, accessibility to public transportation, willingness of the
homeowner to allow tours, willingness of the homeowner to
> continue maintenance of the landscaping installations and
adaptability of the property to the landscaping.
>
> One home in each ward will be selected to install a large shade
tree, a rain garden, "Bayscaping,
" pervious surfaces and a rain
barrel. If the selected homeowner has an impervious surface such as
driveway or patio, it may be replaced with a pervious surface such as
paving stone, porous pavement or other hard surface that permits water
penetration into the soil. The rain barrel will capture and store
rainwater from the rooftop to be reused in the yard. Bayscaping will
provide aesthetic native plants that require little to no watering,
fertilizing or pesticide use.
>
> The eight homes selected will serve as demonstration sites for
DDOE's new pollution reduction campaign scheduled to debut in 2008.
The program will offer incentives for homeowners to adopt the
stormwater reducing techniques on their property that are mentioned
above. The campaign goal is to reduce stormwater runoff and increase
stormwater quality, which will improve our rivers and the District's
environment as a whole.
>
> The deadline for submitting applications is August 10, 2007.
>
> Application for Stormwater Friendly Landscaping Projects
> (http://ddoe.dc.gov/ddoe/cwp/view,a,1210,q,496121.asp)
>
> For more information, please contact Lorin O'Toole at (202)
727-5160
or lorin.otoole@dc.gov.
>
> Steven Saari
> Watershed Protection Specialist
> D.C. Department of Environment
> 51 N Street, NE, 5th Floor
> Washington, DC 20002
> Phone: 202-535-2961
> Fax: 202-535-1364
> Email: steve.saari@dc.gov
>
>> Please visit us on the Web at www.FriendsofRockCreek.org.
>
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