This is a handout from our webinar, "Rain Smart Neighbourhoods: Beautify your landscape while protecting water quality and reducing flood risk". This document discusses the importance of creating Rain Smart Neighbourhoods. It highlights the benefits of infiltration galleries, trees, rain gardens, and permeable paving in reducing flood risk and improving water quality. The document also provides resources and guides for implementing these solutions. By making small changes around your yard, you can improve your landscape while adapting to climate change and boosting biodiversity.
Slowing rain down and soaking it up on private property is a beautiful way to improve your landscape while adapting to climate change, boosting biodiversity, reducing flood risk, and improving water quality and habitat value of local waterways. In this webinar, you will learn about the benefits of a variety of 'Rain Smart' features for your own property, as well as see inspiring examples of residents transforming their landscapes into healthy, resilient, and beautiful places. We will explore how individual actions on private property can add up to big changes, helping us all be ready for the next big rain.