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Letter: Rain gardens can help manage stormwater

Can Flossmoor residents welcome life-giving rains without flooded roadways, basements or backyard ponds? 

Village officials grapple with expensive bond issues to construct storm sewers, according to a recent H-F Chronicle article by Tom Houlihan. There is a less expensive, more immediate water control method the village could employ now as part of an overall plan … residential and commercial rain gardens throughout our village. 

These gardens are engineered to direct rain overflow from sump pumps,…

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