Aidan’s Pub

Type: Rain garden

Use: Institutional

Installer: Richard Casagrande

Designer/Developer: URI Plant Science Dept.

Installation Date: 2002

Address: 3 East Alumni Ave., University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 02881

A smaller scale rain garden filled with perennials and other native wetland plants was installed at the Outreach Center on the URI Kingston campus. This rain garden requires little maintenance and it effectively infiltrates runoff from the roof of the building. The installer Richard Casagrande started by digging a hole and edging it with rocks. He then ran a pipe from the Outreach Center’s roof drain into the rain garden. Finally, they planted a few wetland plants in the garden.

drainpipe near plants

Address: 3 East Alumni Ave, Kingston, 02881