Here are some of the basic results from the Earth Day Project (UPDATED)

The Board of Stewards of Heartland Communities, Inc. and Abigail Frost of Save Maumee would like to issue a heart felt thanks to everyone whom invested their personal capital and time in making this City's rivers more healthy and beautiful.

• WE SCATERED 500 POUNDS OF THE NATIVE RIPARIAN GRASS SEED!

• WE LAID 3000 SQUARE FEET OF EROSION CONTROL MATS!

• WE PLANTED 100 COTTONWOOD TREES AND COUNTLESS POPLAR TREES!

• WE PICKED UP TRUCKLOAD AFTER TRUCKLOAD OF GARBAGE!

• ALONG WITH SEVEN GENTLY USED ... TIRES!

I cherish the thoughts of what everyone accomplished Sunday. One day with your continued investment in these and other environmental cooperative work projects we might even get to play in the rivers again! The work continues and there will be other oppotunities in the near future to help clean up our wonderful City.

[F6's UPDATE: Fort Wayne City Utilities Needs You To Help Plant the City’s First Rain Garden!]

What is a Rain Garden?

A rain garden is a landscaped area planted with native plants and flowers that soaks up rain water. The garden fills with a few inches of rain water that runs off the roof of a building or parking lot during a storm. After the storm the water slowly soaks into the ground instead of running into a storm sewer or waterway.

ITINERARY

Saturday April 26, 2008 meet @ Water Pollution Control Maintenance 515 E. Wallace Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 10:00 a.m. coffee, juice and donuts for volunteers followed by 11:00 a.m. with Mayor Henry’s kick-off news conference. Then grab your gloves and get planting!