Rainbow Environmental Services - Huntington Beach, CA

Description

We had a great opportunity to install an Ocean Friendly Garden at Rainbow Environmental Services in Huntington Beach. While Rainbow has a hi tech filtration system for their operation, it was often overwhelmed during rains and needed constant cleaning. They have now chosen to put in an OFG in their bio-swale which will clean the water before it leaves their site. (This OFG in this bio-swale captures the runoff from almost 13 acres from around the property, so the amount is hard to calculate as it has wet and dry weather runoff coming and going to different places. A conservative guess is that it infiltrates runoff from 1 acre.) Again, it is a very significant amount of rain water captured.
We purposely chose plants that are known for cleaning contaminated water like grasses such as Juncus, Muhlembergia, and Carex, along with others such as Encelia (canyon sunflower).