It’s Stormwater Awareness Week and the City is doing our part by preserving natural streams, rivers, and wetlands like Clover Groff Run in Municipal Park.
This past May, the City received $600,000 from the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission to restore green space and improve wetlands near Clover Groff Run. Since 2017, the City has restored 1,100 feet of Clover Groff Run and additional improvements will take place in 2023.
“Over the past 10-12 years, the City has restored just under three miles of stream in the Big Darby watershed basin,” said Clark Rausch, City Engineer. “We’ve also spent about $2 million on those stream restorations, which helps to improve water quality and flood capacity in the streams.”
Hilliard is also home to Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS), a stormwater management company, who just last week broke ground on a new $65 million engineering and technology center here in Hilliard. The growth of ADS provides a great opportunity for future projects within Hilliard’s boundaries.
“The City of Hilliard and ADS are really closely aligned in our focus on sustainability,” said Michelle Crandall, Hilliard City Manager. “It’s great to have them here to help us along as we also develop our new Recreation & Wellness campus, which lies in the Big Darby. So in that sensitive area of our community, stormwater management is key.”
Clover Groff Run is located in Municipal Park, adjacent to where the new Community and Wellness Center will be built in the next few years.
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