Assessing Your Yard’s Water Contributions

Stormwater from this property's roof and driveway discharges to a rain garden, where it will soak into the ground rather than running off and carrying pollutants to a ditch, stream or lake. Photo by Marcela Gara
Millions of people downhill from us drink the waters that are shed from our roofs, parking lots, streets and lawns. As watershed residents, it is…