Akshar+Patel's+Forested+Rain+Garden+(Umstead+Park)

This past Saturday (May 5th) I went to Umstead Park where there was a Forested Rain Garden that was initially installed in early 2016. The Garden serves two main purposes: It creates a system to prevent polluted runoff to being released into the park's environment, and to create shade for cars to park (especially in the summer!). The way this garden works is that there are medians which have a rock path leading down to a garden where specific sand has been placed and pvc pipes are underground to help supplement the water to those trees. The water is also "purified" when it goes down those medians. There is also overflow (sewer-like) holes to prevent flooding and there is an overflow box just in case. A NCSU team has engineered this Forested Rain Garden and quite frankly it seems as though it is a very effective garden. I learned so much from going to this volunteering event and what we did is we re-did one side of the rocks holding down the black tarp because since it was at a slope angle round rocks would slide down so we would put flat rocks and in the holes we would put the other regular rocks and we also swept the tarp and pulled weeds out to ensure a safe growth environment for this Forested Rain Garden.