Ipswich Group Home Gets SmartStorm^® System

CRWA was invited to participate in an innovative landscaping demonstration project for a group home located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The main goal of the project was to create sustainable landscape around the group home property using native plants and grasses as well as integrate a rainwater collection system to provide an alternative source of water for the landscape. CRWA installed a SmartStorm® Rainwater Recovery System at the property in May 2003. The system only collects water from about 300 square feet of the building roof, and therefore only one tank was needed for the system.

The demonstration project was a joint effort of the Coastal Zone Management Division of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MA DEP), Ipswich River Watershed Association, Ipswich Garden Club, Eight Towns and the Bay, and was funded in part by a grant from the MA DEP Riverways Program. CRWA donated the SmartStorm® system and installation of the system to the project.

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