{"id":25820,"date":"2023-11-09T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25820"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:19:02","slug":"lehigh-county-conservation-district-installs-rain-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25820","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Conservation District Installs Rain Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25821\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LehighRG-2photos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25821\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25821\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LehighRG-2photos-300x71.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LehighRG-2photos-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LehighRG-2photos-1024x241.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LehighRG-2photos-768x181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LehighRG-2photos.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos provided by Lehigh County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The Lehigh County Conservation District, in partnership with Lehigh County, installed a rain garden at Cedar View Apartments, which provides low-income housing to 122 residents who are older than 62 years of age or are physically challenged.<\/p>\r\n<p>Residents learned the importance of minimizing stormwater runoff and nonpoint source pollutants from adjacent parking lots and mowed lawns through an educational program at the project site.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24933 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 84px) 100vw, 84px\" \/><\/a>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh County Conservation District, in partnership with Lehigh County, installed a rain garden at Cedar View Apartments, which provides low-income housing to 122 residents who are older than 62 years of age or are physically challenged. Residents learned the importance of minimizing stormwater runoff and nonpoint source pollutants from adjacent parking lots and mowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}