CSL Landscape Construction employee Mario Valentini adds plants to the rain gardens under construction along Cherry Street in Easthampton on Thursday. Credit: STAFF PHOTO/DAN LITTLE Sign up for the ...

A Rain Garden or "bioretention basin" is a vegetated depression in an urban landscape that collects, treats, and recharges storm water into the ground. Because it is a garden as much as it is a ...

Driving around JBM-HH, you may have noticed gardens planted in depressions and medians. These are examples of bioretention areas, where stormwater runoff flows and slowly settles into the ground ...