Direct downspouts or gutters toward shrubs or trees
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- This is one of the easiest tips and enables you to “water your lawn, not your sidewalk”
- Often, gutters point toward non-permeable surfaces such sidewalks, asphalt parking lots and so forth.
- This creates stormwater runoff which carries pollutants from the pavement—like pesticides, gasoline, oil, fertilizer, etc—into Sarasota Bay. Simply redircting the direction of the gutterspout can direct water to your landscaping and reduce stormwater runoff.
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January 5, 2010 at 11:06 am
