Annandale was brushed by the edge of Hurricane Lee, but the flooding, tree loss, and infrastructure and property impact was surprisingly high. The EPA has recently mandated that states reduce water volume to urban streams and waterways. Reducing impervious surfaces in the Big Picture - voting for state and county projects that use pervious paving for parking lots and roads, supporting research that seeks to advance impervious pavement ideas. In the Little Picture: handsome rain barrels and rain chains; rain gardens, mowing higher and not edging your lawn.
