Environmental Tip #28
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DID YOU KNOW there are a various activities that you can do to minimize stormwater runoff from your property?
Limit the amount of impervious surfaces in your landscape. Use permeable paving surfaces such as wood decks, bricks and concrete lattice to allow water to soak into the ground. Where possible, direct runoff from impervious surfaces across vegetated areas.
Allow thick vegetation or buffer strips to grow alongside waterways to filter and slow runoff and soak up pollutants.
Trees, shrubs, and groundcover absorb up to fourteen times more rainwater than a grass lawn and they don’t require fertilizer.
Always remember that what we do on land affects the Corsica River and the Chesapeake Bay – www.corsicariver.org.ffects the Corsica R