SOUTHWEST WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT’S AMPHIBIAN POND

 

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In addition to planting meadow areas, the Southwest Water Pollution Plant will be turning this stormwater detention basin into an amphibian pond.  This spot was once fertile ground for primarily undesirable, invasive growth, such a phragmites and purple loosestrife.  It will become a partially submerged area, for at least part of the year, as it receives water from a nearby catch basin.  The embankments will be planted with small trees and shrubs, and other native plants will be seeded into the area. 

 

The National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Foundation has offered a $10,000 matching grant for the project.  The pond design was laid out by an Environmental Projects Advisory Committee member and employee of PWD’s Office of Watersheds. The basin retrofit will provide an aesthetically-pleasing amphibian habitat, as well as remove the need for mowing or other continuing grounds maintenance on the site.

 

Southwest Plant employees and Environmental Projects Advisory Committee members pull out purple loosestrife by hand, an arduous process, at the Amphibian Pond area.

 

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