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| Black & Veatch celebrates anniversary of corporate rain garden Black & Veatch professionals, along with their families and friends, on April 21, will celebrate the first anniversary of Kansas City's original corporate rain garden, which is affiliated with the city's "10,000 Rain Gardens" initiative. The event is in conjunction with annual Earth Day observances. Following the ceremony, Rain Garden Brigade members will plant an additional 75 native plants. This will bring to total number of plants at the rain garden to approximately 750. Black & Veatch's Rain Garden Brigade is a group of volunteers who support the rain garden program by taking part in the company's activities or by building a rain garden at home. The company also plans to launch Phase II of the Rain Garden program this spring, which will include the upgrade of a bio-retention area between the company's two Ward Parkway buildings. Rain gardens are sunken areas planted with native perennials that are specially designed to collect stormwater runoff and return it to the ground naturally and safely. According to recent research, properly designed rain gardens can effectively trap and retain a high percentage of common pollutants in urban storm runoff, which is designed to improve water quality. In Johnson County, Kan., Black & Veatch is developing a rain garden with WaterOne at its new Phase V water treatment plant, scheduled for groundbreaking in April. Black & Veatch also provided support for a 5,500-square-foot rain garden design developed by the Kansas City Art Institute and its community partners to improve drainage at the Frank A. Theis Park. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |