Want Your Kirkwood Yard to Look Like This?
Residents can get up to $2,000 for landscaping improvements. The program is part of an initiative to limit how much rain water runs off into area waterways.
Starting this month, Kirkwood residents have the chance to apply for up to $2,000 in grants to help property owners landscape their yards in a way that improves how stormwater is managed. The so-called "rainscaping" initiative is operated through the Deer Creek Watershed Alliance and, according to a recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is designed to help residents plant native vegetation and other modifications on their property that would to limit rainwater seepage into nearby waterways. The Deer Creek Watershed Alliance is a partnership between the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, this area's office of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the…
