We are honored to be kicking off Earth Week by spending the morning at the King County Green Globe Awards. Looking out over the Olympic Sculpture Park in a room full of people who are innovating to make our planet greener, communities healthier and water cleaner, we were humbled that 12,000 Rain Gardens is this year’s Green Stormwater Infrastructure winner! We are proud of what we have accomplished so far and look forward to getting many more rain gardens in the ground to clean stormwater and protect Puget Sound. Get yours today!

Rain gardens will help your immediate surroundings because they:

• Reduce water pollution
• Prevent flooding
• Increase home values
• Make for beautiful, low-maintenance landscapes
• Help your community save millions of dollars in pollution clean-up and expensive stormwater projects.

Rain gardens work like a native forest by capturing and infiltrating polluted runoff from rooftops, driveways, and other hard surfaces. Meeting our campaign goal of 12,000 rain gardens in Seattle/Puget Sound by 2016 would soak up 160 million gallons of polluted runoff to protect our waterways, significantly helping stop the stormwater crisis that is threatening our waterways. Help us reduce water pollution and prevent flooding in the Puget Sound area by installing a rain garden in your area soon.

Executive Director, David Burger, King County Executive Dow Constantine, 12,000 Rain Gardens Program Manager, Aaron Clark