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Sustainability

The Delawning Movement

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012

As a practical matter, the Chimborazo rain garden has little more than symbolic value. A few square yards of vegetative buffer on a school yard will do little in a city of 60 square miles to curb the problem of urban storm water runoff, stream erosion and pollution in the James River. But it's a start. And it's a visible example of taxpayer dollars at work. The project was funded, with state assistance, by the Richmond Stormwater Utility.

Read the full article on Bacon's Rebellion here.

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