OurSpace GreenSpace: FREE Money and a Clean Environment!

OurSpace GreenSpace

How you take care of your space directly affects our streets, yards and waterways.

Every year, urban runoff full of toxins from our neighborhood makes its way into the river, overflowing sewers and storm drains along the way. Want to know what you can do to help alleviate this problem that affects us all?

By planting native vegetation and disconnecting rain downspouts, along with other minor adjustments to your home and yard, urban runoff can be measurably reduced, enhancing watershed quality and making OurSpace a GreenSpace.

Friday, July 18, 2008

FREE Money and a Clean Environment!

By landscaping your backyard with rain loving native plants not only will you be increasing the value and attractiveness of your home, but the city will give you money!

A discount program, Clean River Rewards, available to Portland homeowners – whether they build a rain garden, disconnect their downspouts or employ other storm water management options.

Based on a sliding scale, the incentive could mean a full discount of the on-site storm-water management charge on Portland residential utility bills – currently $5.88 a month. ($70.56 a year!)

Amber Clayton, Clean River Rewards technical assistance program coordinator, says 13,000 Portland residents have signed up for the discount thus far. So why haven't you?