Watershed Awareness & Rain Barrel Workshops

Celebrate The Rain!

It’s time for us to start celebrating rainwater. So, our organization offers Watershed Awareness & Rain Barrel Workshops across Pennsylvania.

Rain barrels are a great way to conserve water, supplying non-chlorinated water for gardening by collecting and storing rainwater from your roof through a connection to your downspout that would otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains, streams and rivers.  Rain barrels keep excess water out of the stormwater system thus alleviating some of the stormwater issues plaguing the region.

Workshop attendees will learn about the problems associated with stormwater run-off, learn watershed-friendly landscaping techniques and how we can all be a part of the solution to point source and nonpoint source pollution by practicing common household tasks in a non-polluting manner. These practices include lawn and garden maintenance, pet care, car care, food choices, cleaning products, personal care products, waste reduction, etc..

PRC West participants will receive a FreeGarden RAIN 55-gallon rain barrel.

Please note: Following the CDC’s guidance for reducing COVID transmission, PRC requests that all attendees of indoor, in-person workshops please wear a mask. Virtual webinars and socially-distanced rain barrel pickups are also available.

Upcoming PRC WEST Rain Barrel & Watershed Workshops

Workshop participants will learn how to harvest rainwater from their roofs, store it, and use it in the landscape. They also learn how to reduce their contribution to combined sewer overflow (CSO), flooding, and polluted urban runoff by learning how to practice watershed protection and conservation in their own backyards. It’s easier than you think!

PRC’s Watershed Awareness/Rain Barrel Workshop raises awareness of watershed issues, demonstrates how to install a 55-gallon rain barrel, and introduces other rainwater harvesting options.

Participants will also receive a FreeGarden RAIN 55-gallon rain barrel (seen below). Designed with the homeowner/gardener in mind, it is affordable, attractive, and easy to install.

Cost: $80/person and $85/couple

Please note: Following the CDC’s guidance for reducing COVID transmission, PRC requests that all attendees of indoor, in-person workshops please wear a mask. Virtual webinars and socially-distanced rain barrel pickups are also available.
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Upcoming In-Person Workshops:

Phipps Garden Center (September 28, 2022) Register Here

 

Upcoming Webinars:

Check back here in Spring 2023!

*Please note: A confirmation email will be sent with additional webinar details shortly after completing the registration form. If you do not receive a confirmation email within a few hours of registering please check your Spam/Junk folders. Contact [email protected] if you have any issues.

Upcoming PRC EAST Rain Barrel Workshops

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND RAIN BARREL WEBINARS

September 26, 2022: Webinar at 6:30 PM
Rain Barrel pick-up Sept 27 in Morton from 4-6 PM
Register Here

October 12, 2022: Webinar at 6:30 PM
Rain Barrel pick-up October 13th in Yeadon from 4-6 PM
Register Here

PRC and the Eastern Delaware County Stormwater Collaborative are hosting two upcoming Free Rain Barrel and Stormwater Management Webinars followed by next day contactless rain barrel pick-up. Attendees will learn about the problems associated with stormwater runoff, ways to conserve water in their homes, and watershed friendly landscaping techniques. The workshop will also cover the basics of how to install and maintain a rain barrel.

Rain barrels will be provided to the first 40 registrants for each webinar.

Workshops are free, but registration is required.

Use the links above for online registration.

You may also call 610-353-1555 ext. 2

Rain Barrel and workshops are provided free of charge through grant funding from the PA DEP Growing Greener Grants Program.

 

Upcoming PRC EAST rain garden workshops

RAIN GARDEN WEBINARS

Currently, there are no upcoming dates for Rain Garden Webinars. Check back here for upcoming programs.