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The floating wetlands project is off the ground and into the water!

Posted in Bay-friendly, children in nature, native plants, runoff pollution, stormwater, stormwater wetlands, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 21, 2013| 2 Comments »

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Students and volunteers launch a floating wetland island into the stormwater detention basin. Photo: Helle Brown

Our first installation of floating wetland islands went into the campus stormwater detention pond at Clear Creek Independent School District’s Education Village in League City. TCWP and the school community launched three islands on November 10

When 72 volunteers, 2 camera crews, and the school superintendent show up to help us undertake something new, it sure is wonderful when it is accomplished with hardly a hitch!

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Floating an new idea

Posted in Bay-friendly, children in nature, freshwater inflows, Galveston Bay, native plants, runoff pollution, stormwater, tagged , , , , , , on September 6, 2013| 1 Comment »

We are moving closer to installing floating wetland islands in what may be the first such project at a school in Texas, and one of the first public installations anywhere in the state. The floating wetlands will be in the storm water detention basin (aka “the pond”) of the Education Village campus in League City TX, part of the Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD).

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Left: Floating wetland islands in Canada. Source: Biohavens International. Right: A pilot project in Baltimore Harbor. Source: Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore.

What is a floating wetland? It’s a small buoyant man-made island that grows wetland plants. CCISD’s islands will be made of a dense mesh of recycled plastic fibers produced by Martin Ecosystems. These floating wetlands have plant, soil and root interactions similar to a natural wetland and provide surfaces for colonies of beneficial water-cleaning microorganisms. (more…)

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Septic Systems and Water Quality – What’s the Connection?

Posted in Galveston Bay, runoff pollution, stormwater, tagged , , , , on June 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Dickinson Bayou, like many of our coastal streams and bayous, is listed as impaired by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for having high levels of bacteria.  This short video is about the issues facing Dickinson Bayou, especially from malfunctioning septic systems, but really the story is the same for many other water bodies.

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