St. Stephen Lutheran Church

A rain garden filters runoff from the church parking lot.

St. Stephen Lutheran Church is one of 12 projects funded in part by a Clean Water Fund grant to manage rainwater runoff at churches with large amounts of impervious surfaces. The goal of this project was to install a rain garden that intercepts and filters runoff from the church parking lot. The reduces the volume of polluted runoff draining into Willow Creek and downstream waters.