St. Croix Schools Go Green with Rain Water Systems
The rain garden at the St. Croix Seventh Day Adventist School.
Two St. Croix schools have installed innovative “green” storm water management systems, with the help of the Virgin Islands Resource Conservation & Development Council, Inc., and its partners, the Virgin Islands Departments of Planning & Natural Resources and of Agriculture.
Rain gardens and bio-swales at the Pearl B. Larsen Elementary School and Seventh Day Adventist School are demonstration projects and are open to the public to come see how they work.
The biggest cause of pollution in our coastal waters is non-point source pollution, according to the council. That's runoff from roads, parking lots and lawns that carry dirt, pesticides, fertilizers, and oil into storm drains to guts and beaches. Every drop of rain that you keep on your property helps to keep our coastal waters less polluted
By Julie Wright, for the Source