INC NEWS - free backyard runoff workshop offered

[Mike - Hotmail]

Forwarded from the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association's e-mail list:

>From: "Stephen Hiltner" <stevehiltner at verizon.net>
>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:30:16 -0400
>Subject: [ECWA_List] free backyard runoff workshop offered
>
>Here's an opportunity to learn about creek-friendly ways of dealing with 
>rainwater runoff from your roof, driveway and yard. There will be a one 
>hour presentation at the main public library, then a tour of two yards in 
>the Northgate Park neighborhood, to see how homeowners are utilizing 
>runoff in their yards. ECWA helped bring UNC, Durham Stormwater staff and 
>Northgate Park neighbors together to make this workshop possible. It 
>promises to be very informative.
>Steve
>
>Workshop offered on "Backyard Pollution Prevention"
>
>The City of Durham's Stormwater Services Division and UNC's
>Environmental Resource Program will host a free workshop titled
>"Backyard Pollution Prevention," from 10:00a.m. to 12:30p.m. Saturday,
>May 7, at the Durham County Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St.).  Other
>partners of the workshop include the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
>and the NC Botanical Gardens.
>
>Space is limited. Register by contacting Diana Degen at 966-2463 or
>degen at email.unc.edu.
>
>Topics include assessing yards for pollution sources, practicing
>responsible home, lawn and vehicle maintenance, and using native plants
>and rain gardens in landscaping. Participants will explore solutions to
>reducing the No. 1 pollutant for freshwater streams in North Carolina -
>urban runoff and drainage. Much of the rain that falls on streets,
>roofs, parking lots and other impervious surfaces is not absorbed, but
>rushes into creeks after picking up pollutants.  The first half of the
>workshop will consist of a presentation on stormwater pollution and then
>second half will entail an optional tour of two yards using landscape
>solutions to reduce runoff.
>
>Funding for the project was provided by Progress Energy.
>
>www.cep.unc.edu/erp/stormwater
>
>
>This e-mail list, most of the activities described therein, and the 
>17-acre preserve along Ellerbe Creek, are all made possible by the members 
>of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association. To become a member, to support 
>ECWA, or to seek more information, see the ECWA website at
><http://www.ellerbecreek.org/>http://www.ellerbecreek.org/
>
>
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Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
jsr6 at duke.edu
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Duke Natural History Society
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Program Director
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
http://www.ellerbecreek.org/

Environmental Chair
Old North Durham Neighborhood Association
http://www.oldnorthdurham.org/

Duke University
Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.) 



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