How a rain garden cleans industrial pollution

As NRDC’s water program rightfully emphasizes, one of the most vexing conundrums in highly urban areas is how to handle polluted rainwater runoff. The way we used to do it, shunting it out of sight into the nearest creek or river, as fast as possible, just won’t do anymore. We now know that untreated stormwater has lots of deleterious effects on the environment.