Rain Gardens

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
• ERP can cover some of the cost of the project, typically 50% up to $2,000 but additional funding assistance may be available for qualifying projects as funding is available.
• Virginia Beach: Cost share 75% of total project costs up to $3,500
• Elizabeth River Project staff will provide a long-term maintenance plan for the project

How to Apply

Fill out the form below to join our waitlist. FYI, these programs are extremely popular and waitlists can be up to 2 years. Funding is cyclical and varies city to city and – we cannot guarantee the above mentioned cost share for every city or for future projects. However, we promise we will not forget about you! We diligently maintain our waitlists and try to maximize the number of projects we do each year.

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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