Rain Gardens and Residential Water Runoff, flood Management by VAP #rain #gardens #water catchments

Video on techniques to prevent standing water and more seriously, flooding your home or basement. Deal with your yard after heavy rains using raid gardens which is a natural choice to correct it. Catchment with rain garden plants shown as well as runoff areas selected.

Rain garden catchments can help the water into the water-table naturally while preventing excessive erosion and runoff which strain city storm sewers, and cause flooding when drains become overwhelmed.
Rain gardens can also serve to direct water to trees and shrubs that need lots of water like cedars and decorative grasses and daisy flowers.

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[taramansion]

My yard floods yearly. I've turned basically all of it into a rain garden. It really helps.

[CP-nfmy]

This is an excellent explanation and a beautiful project you've made. Thank you.

[umiluv]

Thanks for this video! My neighbor and I share the lowest part of the neighborhood and all the culverts divert into our yards. Trying to figure out how to manage the water in a rain garden setting throughout my land and this visual helps a lot! Thanks!

[TheMistakenGarden]

This is an interesting thing. I wish I could do something simple like this to get the rain way from my yard.

[juliehorney]

Wonderful! Did you calculate the amount of runoff from your roof in a typical rain event? Perc rate of your soil? Looks like these contributed to the extensiveness of these swales, rain gardens, and spillways. Love the rocks to slow the flow of water. How about some berries in thar too? So cool beans!

[peternyc]

The determining factor for all the choices you made was that your property has slope to begin with. Given this, you've done a beautiful job. Imagine if you had a completely flat property with zero slope. Then you might have had to use professional help, which is hard to find.

[enatp]

Great idea to direct to thirsty cedars. Appreciate the west coast Canada focus 👍the challenge I find is with warming temperatures, we need plants that can handle soggy and semi drought hot conditions.

[andreaberryman]

I do the edges even with the ground (no burm) so water filters in evenly. I left the center to drain into a felt-lined (to prevent erosion) river rock depression with a big aquatic sedge rocked into it above depression and the dirt sucks up the water at the bottom. It's fun to watch them fill. Wonderful job-love it!!!👌😍

[goozerboozer]

Why so much grass? I think it looks better if you take out the grass and put in native plants.

[tangobayus]

Even apparently flat land is not really flat :)

[eviekleinwhittingham]

It is an improvement, but several of the shrubs, especially the cedars, will grow much larger than the space allotted. I think a basin to hold more water and planted further back from the road would be more attractive and more effective.

[julhabib]

Plz sir tell about hospital wastewater effulent and management??

[b_uppy]

The name for your little stream is 'rill.'
If you used fewer chemicals to maintain your lawn rain would infiltrate better.

[Pablo_M]

Dirt berms along the trees has a high chance of killing the trees.