Syme Hall Rain Garden ribbon cutting

NCSU Landscape Architecture is celebrating the completion of the program's first design-build studio project. The project transforms Syme Hall's backyard into a more raingarden.

From SHIFT, NCSU Landscape Architecture Student Blog, a brief description of the project:

"After weeks of digging up dirt, pouring concrete, tilling soil and laying bricks, the students have essentially created a natural filtering system in the form of a garden. Plants with deep roots are used to absorb some rainwater. The rest is channeled into a cistern and into infiltration zones, where it flows through layers of mulch, sand, soil and glass beads called cullet to remove pollutants and sediment."

The ribbon cutting is open to the public:

August, 17, 2010 at 10 a.m.

Burns Auditorium, 1st Floor Kamphoefner Hall

PLEASE RSVP to Melissa Miklus by August 10, 2010 at melissa_miklus@ncsu.edu