Every Drop is a stormwater best practices program. Our team of volunteers helps Louisville homeowners install rain barrels, rain gardens, trees, and native plant gardens at a reduced cost. These small steps go a long way towards helping Beargrass Creek.
Louisville’s buildings and infrastructure (streets, houses, parking lots, etc.) prevent the rain from soaking into the ground.
As it rains, the water runs off the man-made surfaces and picks up pollutants along the way like lawn chemicals, pet waste, and car fluids.
This polluted water ends up in stormwater sewers that feed directly into Beargrass Creek, Louisville’s largest watershed.
After a few hours of heavy rain, the ground rejects even more dirty water, contaminating Louisville’s creeks, parks and neighborhoods.
The more rain captured where it falls, the better the water quality of Beargrass Creek, and a cleaner Beargrass Creek means a cleaner Louisville!
