Our Cost-Sharing Programs Protect Your Home and The River
We’ll share the cost to install a rain garden on your property to keep pollution out of the Elizabeth River. Together we’ll make the river cleaner and your yard beautiful.
What A Rain Garden Will Do
Rain gardens use amended soil and native plants to slow, absorb and filter polluted runoff before it ever reaches the river.
- Reduce pollution
- Help prevent algae blooms
- Prevents standing stormwater and mosquito breeding
- Attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and other wildlife
What We’ll Do
- Free site assessment to determine if your site is suitable for a rain garden project
- Project Design – $100 cost applied to total cost share after installation
- Provide 50% of total project costs up to $2,000
How to Apply
Application Period: October 1 – December 15, 2022.
Approval Process: Staff will review and respond to all applications no later than 30 days after the application period closes.
Target Installation: Early spring 2023 through early fall 2023.
My garden is looking great. I’m really happy with all the plants – the selection, the placement. Bravo! On to clean water.
Lynn Gilbert
River Star Home
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Thanks to our partners!
Our Rain Garden cost-sharing program is only made possible through funding generous support from our partners and the hundreds of Elizabeth River Project members and donors.
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation – Chesapeake Bay Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grant
- Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grant
- City of Norfolk
- City of Chesapeake
- City of Virginia Beach
