DPW installs rain garden on School Street with WTA horticulture and Raymaakers

WESTFIELD — DPW Deputy Superintendent Casey Berube, in a collaborative project with city stormwater coordinator Noel Lioce-Marra, seniors in the horticulture department at Westfield Technical Academy and John Raymaakers of J.L. Raymaakers and Sons Construction, began installing a rain garden at School and Elm Streets this week. The plantings will be done by horticulture students later in the spring.

Berube said the rain garden will assist with drainage and parking stalls on School Street just off of Elm Street.

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