Rain garden/Gallery

Parts of a network of rain gardens on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.

A small rain garden that is part of a larger network of small gardens. Overflow not absorbed during heavy rains flows into the drain and into the next garden.     A small rain garden with mature plantings between a large parking lot (not shown) and the shopping center below.

Chambers Park on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WW is a large bioretention pond with several rain gardens built in.

Shown is part of the south edge of the Chambers Park bioretention pond with an incorporated rain garden center right.     Before this bioretention pond was competed, the intersection to the upper left of the picture was routinely flooded during heavy rains.