The gardens work extra duty to filter runoff pollution, improve water quality and protect wildlife in the Great Lakes and southeast Michigan rivers and streams.
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Wearing mulch-stained jeans and armed with mini shovels and giant-sized goals to assist the environment, a contingent of green-thumbed DTE Energy employees played a role earlier this month to plant 20,000 square feet of rain gardens at the Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex.
The efforts of the volunteers a good percentage of them Plymouth residents will create gardens that will absorb as much as 225,000 gallons of water per rainstorm event to help mitigate flooding in Plymouth, Canton and beyond, and provide a native habitat for birds, butterflies and other vital pollinators.
The gardens also serve a purpose during extended dry periods like southeast Michigan has experienced recently when creeks and tributaries that flow through subdivisions become a series of shallow puddles.