It's pretty hard to visualize how much space 6500 gallons of water would fill for the rain water we have diverted from the storm water system so far this year.
Out of curiosity, I checked out how many gallons of water it takes to fill a small swimming pool that is 12 X 24 with an average depth of 5.5 feet. Water capacity for that size pool is 12,420 gallons. So far this year, we could have filled half a swimming pool with the water that didn't go into the storm water system.
If you've ever watched America's Funniest Home Videos, you have seen what happens when the walls of an above ground pool collapse. Everything including people get swept away with the surge. Multiply that by 10 for impact. This gives you some idea of the benefits a rain garden provides for local streams that aren't being impacted by our run-off. Again, if 10 houses in our neighborhood did this, we would have prevented 4 or5 swimming pools worth of water from hitting the storm water system and the creek across the street. We would also have stopped the chemicals those waters contained from landing in our water sources.
Think about it.
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