Lucas County Green Corp Announcement

The Lucas County Green Corps is a partnership that will improve the region's water quality by demonstrating and installing a variety of innovative urban conservation and water management practices and providing education, job-training, employment and service opportunities for at-risk youth. The partnership will train at-risk youth to install urban water management and conservation practices. These practices will include a green roof and a gray water reuse system, tree planting, rain gardens, and rain barrels. The program will demonstrate effectiveness and benefits of these practices to the public so that urban stormwater conservation practices will be increasingly applied in the Western Lake Erie Basin.

The project will also develop a cadre of trained workers available to staff turnkey conservation services available to increase commercial nurseries and conservation organizations in providing conservation services to urban landowners.

This project is a partnership between Lucas County, Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership, the CITE Community Integration and Training for Employment program of the Lucas County Juvenile Justice Division, Toledo GROWS program (Toledo Botanical Garden), the City of Toledo, and the Toledo-Lucas County Rain Garden Initiative.