More and more people are recognizing the importance of soil and water quality. Communities are becoming more proactive in working to protect their watersheds and implement new practices to mitigate the environmental impacts of development. Municipal planners and stormwater engineers are also looking at new ways to reduce the demands on existing stormwater systems by building wetlands, rain gardens, riparian buffer zones and green infrastructure. This new mindset has caused a paradigm shift from working against nature into working with it.
About Us
EcoGro is a design-build environmental restoration company based in Lexington, Kentucky that concentrates in water quality best management practices and native landscape stewardship projects. An example of the types of work includes stream and wetland restoration, streambank stabilization, stormwater basin retrofits, bioinfiltration basins, rainfall harvest tanks, rain gardens, forest and greenway native plant stewardship, invasive plant removal and establishment of native plant communities.
Over the course of two years, residents of Cumberland Hills neighborhood watched trucks and heavy equipment coming and going behind their houses through
The Walnut Hill Club at Chilesburg Owners Association was experiencing larger volumes of stormwater entering their property from surrounding areas. When the
The city of Lexington’s Division of Parks and Recreation needed to address an eroding stormwater channel in the city’s newest public park. This property had