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May 13, 2013

Save the Sound plants rain garden in Southington

Save the Sound, a program of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, began the latest chapter of its Quinnipiac River watershed project Saturday with the planting of a residential rain garden in Southington.

The project, which increases the amount of clean drinking water available to the Quinnipiac River watershed, largely will service the towns of Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire, and Southington.

Funding for the project is provided by the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection's Quinnipiac River Groundwater Natural Resources Damages Fund, while Save the Sound is partnering with Southington, UConn, and the United States Geological Survey.

The project captures more of the water in the ground to help replenish local water sources and keep rainwater from flowing into the municipal storm water systems from, subsequently, polluting other local bodies of water.

A dozen residential rain gardens, including the one planted this weekend, and one large municipal-commercial rain garden are planned to be planted in the watershed, helping the project put an expected 340,000 gallons of clean water back into the water supply each year.

The project will help to replace a contaminated drinking water well closed due to environmental repercussions of the Old Southington Landfill, which served as a municipal and industrial landfill from 1920 to 1967.

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