Growing Green for Clean Water

We partner with developers, land use planners, and local governments to incorporate nature into infrastructure planning and projects. We also plant rain gardens in public areas, promote shoreline buffer zones, and green streets and roadways to absorb stormwater runoff.

Green Infrastructure Planning for Local Governments

We work with communities throughout the watershed to enact policies that protect natural areas and water quality, including hosting local public workshops to discuss natural green infrastructure – forests, wetlands, lakes, streams and other wildlands - and how to protect them.

Norton Creek Restoration and Rain Gardens

Check out our projects to protect and restore Norton Creek, including one that made a stretch of this artificially straightened creek curvy again to bring back the health of the creek, and a few sites where we planted gardens to absorb stormwater.

Rain Catchers Collective

We are helping Southeast Michigan residents and communities capture and filter rainwater runoff to protect local waterways, in partnership with the Clinton River Watershed Council and Friends of the Rouge.

Green Infrastructure Resources

GI resources for public agencies, contractors, and educators Past Project Archive: Swift Run 2015-2018

Swift Run Planting Pictures at Mitchell Elementary School and the Forestbrooke Swim Club

Mitchell Elementary Rain Garden Planting Forestbrooke Swim Club 2018 Rain Garden Planting