American Elm Park Rain Garden

Friends of Sligo Creek, along with the neighborhood Civic Associations, agreed to co-sponsor a Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Chesapeake Bay Trust Rainscaping project at the site on Oct 13th, 2003. The project consisted on installing a rain garden on the upper portion of the park. DEP helped with know-how and plant material, and three members of the department came to help on the day the garden was built. Dozens of members of the community also came out to help build the rain garden. The rain garden will immediately benefit that part of the Sligo Creek watershed as well as educate homeowners about stormwater run-off. The site will serve as a pilot demonstration project that will be monitored by the community.

See http://www.fosc.org/AL-AmericanElmPark.htm for more information about the rain garden and the rest of the American Elm Park.