Skip to main content Skip to footer unit links
← Back to all capstone projects
2011 Spring | Business & Sustainability, Sustainability

Identifying Potential Rain Garden Locations in Kitsap County, Washington

Student(s):

Sarah Hudgins

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Jeff Adams

Partner(s):

  • Washington Sea Grant

Faculty advisor(s):

Miles Logsdon, Oceanography, University of Washington

The goal of this project was to develop a series of maps using ArcGIS software that could be used to identify potential locations for residential installation of functioning rain gardens in Kitsap County, Washington. I created these maps for Washington Sea Grant’s outreach program, which aims to effectively reach community members that have privately owned land that meets rain garden design requirements; the outreach program contacts these individuals to discuss rain garden installation. Rain gardens are an effective Best Management Practice (BMP) for Low Impact Development (LID) in urban stormwater runoff
management.