{"id":2382,"date":"2025-09-22T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:02:31","slug":"new-video-the-little-rain-garden-that-could-survive-a-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/new-video-the-little-rain-garden-that-could-survive-a-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"New video! The Little Rain Garden that Could (Survive a Flood)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m so excited to share this new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/\"> Lake Champlain Sea Grant<\/a> video about a resilient rain garden along the Winooski River that survived catastrophic flooding in 2023, and kept on functioning, with a little help from committed community partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Building Resilience: A Rain Garden\u2019s Post-Flood Story\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrDI1SWXvwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I first saw this rain garden in Montpelier about 3 weeks after the devastating floods. Drowning in sand and fine sediment, it had dune features burying some of the vegetation. Things looked dire. Rain gardens and other green stormwater infrastructure are meant to handle heavy rains and runoff, but not to be completely submerged, much less sediment deposition zones. It was clear that the function of the rain garden was compromised, but there was so much devastation in town &#8211; with homes, businesses, and state office buildings dealing with massive flood damages &#8211; it was hard to imagine it would be a priority for revitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2383\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023a_sm.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023a_sm.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023a_sm-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023a_sm-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023a_sm-268x200.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023a_sm-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">August 3, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later, the rain garden is back and more beautiful and functional than ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2388\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025a_sm-1.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025a_sm-1.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025a_sm-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025a_sm-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025a_sm-1-268x200.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025a_sm-1-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">September 21, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While the video was my idea, huge credit to LCSG&#8217;s Jill Sarazen and film maker Vince Franke of Peregrine Productions for making the video happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm-268x200.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2023b_sm-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jill inspects the rain garden, August 3, 2025. Out of sight in the background, flood debris had washed up against the teller machines in the bank drive through and along the walking trail. The Winooski River is just behind the trees. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm-268x200.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025b_sm-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In September 2025, the rain garden is thriving despite our extreme drought conditions. This story really underscores the resilience of well-designed green stormwater infrastructure. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited to share this new Lake Champlain Sea Grant video about a resilient rain garden along the Winooski River that survived catastrophic flooding in 2023, and kept on functioning, with a little help from committed community partners. I first saw this rain garden in Montpelier about 3 weeks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,319],"tags":[346,370,394,464,82],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floods","category-green-infrastructure","tag-floods","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-resilience","tag-sea-grant","tag-video"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ajefferson","author_link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/author\/ajefferson\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}