Northern Rhode Island Conservation District -- Education

Northern Rhode Island Conservation District is committed to providing public information and education in an effort to reduce nonpoint sources of pollution from entering drinking water supplies as well as recreational rivers, lakes, ponds and streams.

Scituate Reservoir Watershed
Education Program

CLICK HERE for details on program components and information on protecting water quality.

Urban Rain Garden Project

A "Rain Garden" is a man-made depression in the ground that is used as a landscape tool to improve water quality. The rain garden forms a bio-retention area by collecting water run-off and storing it, permitting it to be filtered and slowly absorbed by the soil.

What is a Rain Garden

How to Plant Your Own Rain Garden

Goals of the Urban Rain Garden Project

Starting Your Own Urban Rain Garden Project

Student Lessons and Activities

Tool Kit for Urban Rivers
Outreach and Education

Could you benefit from a free, easy to duplicate proven method to reach your watershed community? Are you struggling to provide your community with critical health, safety and natural resource messages? LOOK NO FURTHER!! The Tool Kit for Urban Rivers is a free, easy to use model that has proven its success in the Woonasquatucket River Watershed of Rhode Island.

The Scituate Reservoir Watershed Education Program has been administered by the NRICD and funded by Providence Water for the past ten years. The main objective of the program is to provide information and educational opportunities to local residents in order to reduce non point source pollution loading to the Scituate Reservoir.

Program components include:

Elementary Classroom Presentations

AWEsome! Active Watershed Education Curriculum Teacher Training

Annual Poster Contest for Grades 3-8

Billboard Campaign

Public Service Announcements

Neighbor to Neighbor: Direct Mailing to New Residents in the Watershed

Public Water Quality Workshops for Adult Residents

Woodscaping Workshops for Residents with 5 or More Acres

Business Bulletins

Water Festival