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Topic: Rain Gardens.
Speaker: Charriss York Program, Director, Green Infrastructure for Texas, and her colleague Celina Lowry.
Charriss York is a Program Director for the Texas Community Watershed Partners, a program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service through the Disaster Assessment and Recovery Unit. York leads the Green Infrastructure for Texas or GIFT team that works with communities to find nature-based solutions to manage stormwater for both flooding and water quality benefits. Charriss has worked with communities in Galveston and Harris Counties to implement on the ground examples of green infrastructure and stormater wetlands. York joined the TCWP team in 2006, in 2008 she took over the stormwater program, and in 2020 she became one of two TCWP Program Directors. Charriss holds a B.S. in Biology from Truman State University and a M.S. in Botany from Oklahoma State University.
A rain garden is a depressed area in the landscape that collects rain water from a roof, driveway or street and allows it to soak into the ground. Planted with grasses and flowering perennials, rain gardens can be a cost effective and beautiful way to reduce runoff from your property. Rain gardens can also help filter out pollutants in runoff and provide food and shelter for butterflies, song birds and other wildlife.
