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Grants fund erosion-stopping rain gardens

By Lisa Hammersly

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 2:23 a.m.

Andy Shupe
Credit: NWA Media
Sophia Stephenson, environmental educator for Washington County’s environmental affairs and recycling division, shows the rain garden Wednesday that was installed at the county’s special waste recycling facility in Fayetteville.

A few years ago, Amy Wilson’s lawn on the east side of Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville had a water runoff problem.

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Glad to see acknowledgement of poultry waste as a source of nutrient pollution.

An estimated 70-percent of phosphorus pollution in the Illinoia River watershed is from nonpoint source pollution...in other words not from sewer treatment plants and factories. Most of this pollution is from confined animal feeding operations like poultry farms.

Sewer plants must have federal Clean Water Act permits but poultry farms and hog farms don't need pollution discharge permits.

E.B.

Posted by: Riverok

September 25, 2012 at 7:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Seriously? This is ugly. Why would anyone want a eyesore like that on their lawn? Maybe there is a more attractive way to do a rain garden, if not most homeowners are not going to buy into that. Just sayin.

Posted by: suek

September 25, 2012 at 9:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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