{"id":907,"date":"2013-04-22T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=907"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:46:44","slug":"making-rain-barrels-for-the-big-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2013\/04\/22\/making-rain-barrels-for-the-big-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Rain Barrels for the Big Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday April 20, students from Dr. Goodman&#8217;s BIOL 185 &#8220;Water Resources and Environmental Issues&#8221; and the club Circle K International volunteered for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsc.edu\/Student-Life\/Civic-Engagement\/Service-Stories\/The-Big-Event.html\">HSC annual Big Event<\/a>. \u00a0They created 50 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwood.edu\/cleanva\/rainbarrels.htm\">rain barrels<\/a> that will be used in an educational workshop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwood.edu\/cleanva\/\">Clean Virginia\u00a0Waterways<\/a>, a local non-profit group. \u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwood.edu\/cleanva\/rainbarrels.htm\">rain barrel<\/a>\u00a0is installed to catch water from a rooftop, which can then be used for watering lawns and other non-drinking purposes. \u00a0This saves precious drinking water from being depleted, and also prevents excessive runoff during storms (which can overload water treatment plants in cities).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-908\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-1-300x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-23.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-912\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-23-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-910\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-909\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-911\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/BE-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday April 20, students from Dr. Goodman&#8217;s BIOL 185 &#8220;Water Resources and Environmental Issues&#8221; 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