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The
UD Rain Garden| The
UD Rain Garden, although small in stature, is part of a complex
watershed system, ranging in increasing scale from the small
Cool Run tributary, to the White Clay Creek watershed, to the
Christina Basin, and finally to the Delaware River Basin. The
UD Rain Garden is situated in the headwaters of Cool Run, a
small, ephemeral stream that flows south past the Perkins Student
Center and then under the Amtrak railroad tracks to the UD Agricultural
Farm on its way to join White Clay Creek. As the UD campus developed,
the stream has been manipulated and rerouted, sometimes into
an underground pipe. White Clay Creek, Delaware’s only National Wild and Scenic River, is the first to be designated on a watershed basis instead of a single-river-segment basis. The 108-square-mile White Clay Creek watershed is an important source of drinking water for Newark’s residents and is one of only six trout streams in Delaware. It is one of the four major streams in a larger watershed called the Christina River Basin. The White Clay Creek and sister watersheds Brandywine Creek, Red Clay Creek, and Christina River originate upstream in Pennsylvania before flowing through New Castle County, Delaware, on their way to the Delaware River. The Christina River Basin is, in turn, part of a larger watershed, the five-state Delaware River Basin, which includes parts of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The UD Rain Garden is a Master's Thesis research project designed by Elaine Grehl, Longwood Graduate Program, Class of 2005, with assistance from Jerry Kauffman and Carol Krawczyk. Below are the pdfs that make up the signage for the UD Rain Garden. Panel A - Welcome to the UD Rain Garden  (4.57MB)Panel B - A Rain Garden's Benefits and Beauty (1.2MB)Panel C - Funding
(1.3MB)For more information, please contact: Gerald Kauffman |
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Resources Agency
Institute
for Public Administration | College of
Human Services, Education & Public Policy
DGS Annex | University of Delaware |
Newark, DE 19716
phone 302 831 8971| water-info@udel.edu
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