Build a rain garden to soak up storm flow from a downtown flats yard.

Once roof runoff is captured in the barrel, the next step for this downtown flats property is handling street-level storm flow that pools in the yard during heavy rain. A rain garden gives that water somewhere to soak in instead of running to the storm drain.

Where

Whittier St, Juneau, AK · Open the map

Pay

$400 proposed

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Proof

Photos show a planted, mulched basin that drains within 24 hours

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Choose a low point in the yard away from the foundation
2. Dig a shallow basin and grade the sides gently
3. Amend the soil with compost for better infiltration
4. Plant water-tolerant native species in the basin
5. Mulch the basin and confirm it drains within a day after watering

What counts as done

• dated before-work photo
• dated after-work photo
• GPS location tag

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Green Stormwater Infrastructure. Green stormwater infrastructure is the city's way of handling rain the way a meadow does: rain gardens, planted swales, and permeable pavement that let a storm soak in instead of surging down a pipe. The EPA's inspection standard keeps these systems honest, because a neglected rain garden quietly stops working while still looking like a garden. Mastery is the inspector's eye: reading inlets, overflow, plants, and soil in a single practiced pass. This packet is one such inspection, one basin checked and one record filed, which is precisely how a thousand basins stay alive.