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Several rain gardens and native landscaping projects
have cropped up in the Fox River watershed since the
publication of A Citizen’s Guide to
Preserving the Fox River.
Our photos below show volunteers helping to create a
garden at Geneva City Hall using native plants that
attract butterflies, song birds and other beneficial
wildlife. The native plants' deep and extensive root
systems will allow rain water to infiltrate into the
aquifer, instead of running off and polluting the Fox
River. There are also two native rain gardens at Geneva
City Hall.
In South Elgin, the city installed native rain gardens
at Concord Park and The Conservation Foundation
certified them as
Conservation @ Home properties. South Elgin also
installed native landscaping around their municipal
annex building near the Fox River. |
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