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Building Rain Gardens Building a Rain Garden Mark your garden boundaries with spray paint. If you are using power equipment to dig you must call 811 to have utility lines marked. Calling 811 is recommended even for hand digging. Homeowners performing work on their property are not charged for this service. Allow three business days…

Pick the Right Location The best locations are in natural depressions or low lying areas where water flows naturally from a downspout, driveway, patio or sidewalk. Avoid steep slopes and areas near septic systems or drinking water wells. You must be able to move water from the hard surface (roof, etc.) to the garden location,…

Rain gardens are a natural and beautiful way to help your streams. These gardens in slight depressions in the ground trap rainfall from a roof or driveway and prevent it from adding to the polluted runoff that damages streams. Trapped rain water is allowed to slowly sink into the ground while supporting beautiful plants that…

Crum Creek Watershed CHESTER CREEK WATERSHED RIDLEY CREEK WATERSHED CRUM CREEK WATERSHED Crum Creek, which means “crooked creek” in Dutch, is a Special Protection stream, with the largest Cold Water Fishery and native trout population of our three creeks. It is the largest drinking water source for Delaware County residents. However, this important resource is…

Chester Creek Watersheds CHESTER CREEK WATERSHED RIDLEY CREEK WATERSHED CRUM CREEK WATERSHED The East Branch of Chester Creek rises in East Whiteland and flows 24 miles to its confluence with the Delaware River in Chester City, Pennsylvania, near the park named for William Penn’s first landing. The West Branch of Chester Creek begins near Route…