A pond can absorb storm-water from your property and the overflows from rain barrels.
Reducing storm-water runoff is one of the nine principles promoted for a Florida-friendly yard. Harvesting rainwater with rain barrels not only reduces storm-water, it also provides water for later use. Forward-thinking towns and communities encourage rain barrel use, and some communities even provide discounted or free rain barrels to their citizens. Just think how much the initial storm-water runoff would be reduced if only half of a town’s citizens used a rain barrel or two.
Read the entire article in the February 2009 issue
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