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Small Rain Gardens Provide A Big Boost To Water Quality

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Melvin Tesada and Jose Amaya plant one of the new rain gardens that was installed this week at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

Melvin Tesada and Jose Amaya plant one of the new rain gardens that was installed this week at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

Cassandra Castano, a landscape ecologist with Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, with some of the plants used in the village's first rain gardens. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

Cassandra Castano, a landscape ecologist with Nelson, Pope & Voorhis, with some of the plants used in the village's first rain gardens. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

authorStephen J. Kotz on Jun 30, 2020
At first glance, the pair of new rain gardens on either side of the circular access road to Havens Beach in Sag Harbor don’t look like much — just an... more

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