The City of Sydney and the local Chippendale community will be holding a community planting day on Saturday, February 20, to mark the completion of the Chippendale streetscape improvement project.
A key component of the project is a number of new garden beds which have been dedicated as community gardens and will allow plants to grow under resident care.
"The gardens provide a wonderful opportunity to support community-minded green thumbs and will bring pleasure to many local residents. Over a dozen garden beds have been provided on street verges and will be similar to the community-managed garden that already exists at the western end of Myrtle Street. Some gardens will be edible gardens and others will have native plants," Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP says.
The City of Sydney will cover the costs of establishing the new gardens, including soil and plants, but residents are also able to establish plants.
Worksat Chippendale have included footpath widening, realignment of key intersections, kerb extensions and new garden beds, including an innovative system of raingardens.
The raingardens have been designed around stormwater drains to capture and naturally treat runoff from roads and footpaths. They will improve the quality of stormwater entering Blackwattle Bay, as runoff will be filtered through multiple layers of sand, gravel and plant roots to remove pollutants before entering the stormwater system.
In the future an underground stormwater tank will also be established in Peace Park that will collect and treat stormwater for irrigation use.
Moore says: "Detail design work for the stormwater tank is currently being undertaken and will allow stormwater that has, quite literally, been going down the drain to be harvested. The treated stormwater could be used to irrigate native garden beds, turf areas and community gardens, resulting in a massive reduction in mains water use."
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