Archive for September, 2011

CNT-West Garden…. ready for plants

Getting Ready for Water…….

The Raingarden Conveyance Channel  is being lined with river rocks.  The water from the roof will be piped to this lined channel, then will travel to the raingarden basin.  The conveyance channel is steeply pitched away from the building  to encourage the water to travel away from the building. The Channel is also lined with a geotextile fabric to reduce the ability of water to percolate into the soil and gravel along the building foundation.  The river rock lining holds the fabric and looks nice.

Getting Ready for Plants…….

Final grading was performed by raking the planting soil and sculpting it to the final grades. The planting areas were marked with inverted spray paint.  Native plant plugs will be installed by volunteers.  Pictures of the site planted are coming soon….

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CNT-West Garden – almost ready for plants

Center for Neighborhood Technology’s new garden on Western Avenue is almost ready for plants.

Most of the hardscape work is done. Some work is still required to get the pergola finished.  Plants should arrive this week and will be installed this weekend by Chicago Conservation Corps!

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CNT-West, in progress….

The Garden at CNT-West is coming along nicely.  Greencorps is doing some really nice work!

There is a bit more info about the garden here.

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