HELP NEEDED: Rain Garden Project
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 • 9am - 1pm
CRANDON LAKE OFFICE PARKING LOT AREA
The Lake Resources committee and the Board of Directors is asking for community volunteer participation as part of our long awaited "Rain Garden" project. This project has been in the works for quite a few years and we've been able to arrange for the installation to occur in the next few weeks. The rain garden will help mitigate the tremendous amount of stormwater that collects in our CLCC office parking lot. This runoff then gets piped directly into our lake carrying whatever sediment and pollutants are on the blacktop surface. The rain gardens will divert a significant part of that stormwater into settling areas where it can naturally be absorbed into the surrounding groundcover.
The groundbreaking has tentatively been scheduled for the last week of September/beginning of October. Volunteers would be needed only for the target "planting" date of Saturday, October 5th at this point. The start time would be 9am and hopefully be done well before 1pm. It would mirror our very successful tree and shrub planting project coordinated with SCMUA last year. Due to significant volunteer turnout that project was completed much faster than we had anticipated. We're hoping for a repeat.
We hope you can find some time in your busy schedule to come out and assist with mulching and/or planting some of the 300+ donated plants/shrubs. This project is being fully funded by SCMUA and there is zero cost to the CLCC residents other than their time donated. We estimate that this project would have cost (with contractor, Rutgers engineering/architect and materials costs) in the area of $60k if we funded it ourselves.
So please come out and participate as it's a great way to work off some of the calories that can be acquired at the event following the planting on the same day which is our Annual Oktoberfest run by the Heinsohn family! So plant a shrub, eat a bratwurst and meet your neighbors.
Please email/call the office to leave a voice message for those who will be attending the rain garden planting. Just so that we know if we have enough volunteers. Thank you all.
— Bill Mccann
