Landscaping
Yard and lawn care activities can have harmful effects on our island’s waters when irrigation or rain water carries pollutants such as grass clippings, tree branches, leaves, dirt, and fertilizers into the storm drain system.
Resources
The links below explain Best Management Practices (BMPs) which are simple and effective ways to prevent storm water pollution when conducting landscaping activities.
Healthy Yard Care program webpage
Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) webpage
Landscape Maintenance BMPs Brochure (English | Ilocano | Samoan | Tagalog | Tongan)
Ilocano Radio Spot
The City created an Ilocano radio campaign to share out the importance of not blowing yard wastes down the storm drains. It uses an Ilocano folk song (Pamulinawen) with storm water message lyrics.