The City of Delta in partnership with the BC Wildlife Federation and the Cougar Creek Streamkeepers recently added a new rain garden at Cory Drive Park.
Rain gardens are planted areas designed to receive rainwater runoff from streets, parking lots or roofs.
The city notes that the gardens clean and cool rain water runoff as they absorb it into the ground, not only keeping pollution out of salmon streams like Cougar Creek but also saving rainwater in the ground to help keep trees hydrated and salmon streams flowing, even in drought.
The North Delta park project was completed in late September, joining a series of other rain gardens in the community.
“While the environmental benefit of a single rain garden is negligible, the combined benefits of many such gardens can make the difference between salmon survival and salmon extinction in Cougar Creek,” the Cougar Creek Streamkeepers website explains.
