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Needham High seniors propose rain garden and trail improvements at DPW site and town forest
Summary
Students from the Greater Boston Project presented a plan for a roughly 150–200 sq ft rain garden in front of the DPW building to capture parking‑lot and roof runoff, plus volunteer trail‑marker and kiosk improvements for the Needham Town Forest; the commission treated the presentation as informational and offered technical suggestions.
A student team from Needham High School’s Greater Boston Project presented a design and implementation plan for a rain garden at the Department of Public Works site and proposed volunteer trail improvements in the Needham Town Forest.
Project snapshot: Students said the proposed rain garden would collect runoff from the DPW parking lot and building roof and would be roughly 150–200 square feet in the proposed location near the front of the DPW building. The design calls for a shallow, planted basin with moisture‑tolerant species at the low point and progressively drier, pollinator‑friendly plantings at the margins. The students proposed red‑twig dogwood, marginal wood fern,…
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