Stormwater Management Projects
We help nearby neighborhoods obtain grants that they use to build rain gardens and other “green infrastructure”, to reduce and control stormwater runoff that can severely harm the creek. The grants leverage our expertise to make a real impact on the challenging stormwater problem.
Little Falls Swim Club Permeable Pavers
Little Falls Swim Club in Bethesda is getting a new look and stormwater management. In 2023, LFWA received a Montgomery County Watershed Restoration and Outreach Program Grant to tackle the problem of stormwater run-off at the parking lot. 1,000 feet of the impervious parking lot will be replaced with permeable pavers which allow the water to soak into the ground after it rains instead of flooding the area and the adjacent Little Falls creek.
St. Dunstan's Church Stormwater management Plan
In 2024, LFWA received a grant to develop a comprehensive stormwater management design for St. Dunstan’s Church to use as a road map for solving stormwater management problems on their campus. Design elements include pervious pavers, curb cuts and rain gardens, and impervious surface removal.
permeable pavers for Overlook Pool Parking Lot
The Overlook Pool Parking lot is getting stormwater management thanks to a 2021 grant funded by the Montgomery County Water Quality Protection Fund. Permeable pavers will replace 1,300 square feet of impervious asphalt so that rain water will soak into the ground instead of running off the parking lot and into the Little Falls branch (as seen above!). Permeable pavers allow stormwater to stay on site as they sit on top of a gravel reservoir. When it rains, the water goes through the gaps in the pavers and is stored in the gravel until it soaks into the ground.
Overlook stormwater Study and Demonstration Rain gardens
In 2017, Little Falls Watershed Alliance received a grant to do a stormwater management study for the Overlook Homeowners Association in Bethesda and to install demonstration rain gardens and conservation landscaping. The $50,000 grant was administered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and funded from the Montgomery County Water Quality Fund.
Sumner Village Stormwater managment and Conservation landscaping
In January 2019, LFWA was awarded a $20,000 grant from the Montgomery County Department of Environment Protection to tackle the stormwater run-off problem at Sumner Village, a condominium community in Bethesda.