Rain Garden Painting with the Westside Watershed Resource Center

The Westside Watershed Resource Center hosted a rain garden painting on the corner of SW 26th Ave and Barbur Ct in early June 2024. This event helped raise awareness about watershed health, mitigate graffiti, and build community.

Thank you to all the volunteers that came out to help bring awareness about watershed health, mitigate graffiti, and connect with more members in the community! Rain gardens are designed to support soils to reabsorb rain runoff, help remove pollutants, and reduce the speed of stormwater before entering waterways like creeks. This rain garden is one of three large rain gardens at the site that help manage stormwater coming off of Barbur Blvd and I-5 before it enters Tryon Creek.

TCWC’s Coordinator, Alexis, helped out at the event and talked about how important mitigating stormwater runoff is for the urbanized Tryon Creek watershed as well as the healthy populations of cutthroat trout in the creek.