© May 27, 2007
Science students at Manteo Middle School helped turn two rather unattractive detention ponds into rain gardens last fall. They planted flowers and bushes and trees with names like aster, silky dogwood, red chokeberry and seashore mallow. They sowed grass and laid rock.
They learned that rain gardens are a pretty way to capture storm water before it runs into yards and roads, collecting pollutants and ending up in the waters in which they swim and surf and play.
Jan DeBlieu of the North Carolina Coastal Federation got the grant for the project and oversaw it. She wants to take on more ventures like that, o nes that educate and help the environment.