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 Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction for Grand Lake Watershed, Oklahoma

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Grand Lake Visitor Center - Biofilter Rain Garden

(9630 Hwy 59 N, Grove...about 1 mile south of Sailboat Bridge)

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Rain garden captures runoff from the parking lot and lawn when it rains.  This is the largest of the project rain gardens.

 

The Grand Lake Visitor Center is the home of the first constructed biofilter rain garden.  See the photos below to see how it came together:

Site before construction began.

Installing a silt fence to limit construction sediment from washing into the lake.

Breaking ground on the first biofilter rain garden

Grass cleared from site

Site excavated and outlet pipe installed.

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This page was last updated:  October 21, 2008