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Rain garden makes lovely solution to costly problem

By Julie Wurth
Saturday August 18, 2007

Faced with a $15,000 storm sewer fee, planners of the new Land of Lincoln building came up with an alternative:

Build a new "rain garden" in what was a drainage ditch, saving rainwater for plants instead of the sewer.

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