Knox College Students Build Rain Gardens for Their Campus

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By Yale Climate ConnectionsJan 10, 2020, 2:16 pm244 ptsTrending
Last spring, students at Knox College in Illinois traded their notebooks for shovels and planted a rain garden on campus. The garden is not just a bunch of pretty plants. It's designed to reduce stress on the campus drainage system during heavy rain. "The whole goal behind the rain gardens is … slow it,…

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