Moon to Install Township Rain Garden

The area between Moon Township's Municipal and Public Safety buildings soon will get an environmentally friendly face-lift.

Township officials have agreed to install a rain garden at 1000 Beaver Grade Road. The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection awarded the township a $90,000 grant for the project.

The garden will feature the township's , which will be crafted from a piece of steel from the World Trade Center.  

The garden, which will consist of three 20-by-60-foot landscaped islands, will absorb rainwater runoff from the buildings' parking lots, allowing it to filtrate through plants and into the ground.

"It should be completed by the end of June or July, but our crews have already started getting ready for it," said Dana Kasler, director of the Moon Parks and Recreation department.

Kasler said each of the plants featured in the garden will be indigenous to Western Pennsylvania to avoid the need for pesticides. As a part of the grant, local FedEx employees will help plant the garden.

Kasler said though the garden is still in the design phases, it will feature a walkway and park benches, "so that if residents want to stop by and eat their lunch there they can."