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Police gain a clue in pumpkin smashing spree ... Neglect leads list of adult care facility failings ... Homemade bomb found inside stolen car after arrest of fleeing transient ... Police gain a clue in pumpkin smashing spree ... Neglect leads list of adult care facility failings ... ENVIRONMENT Curbing urban runoff in Gold Hill Gold Hill gets a new coordinator to reduce city runoff into the Rogue River. By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Nov. 24, 2014 @ 12:01 am By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Nov. 24, 2014 @ 12:01 am --> DEQ seeks applications to reduce pollution The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is seeking "pre-proposal" applications beginning today for grants to curb non-point source ... » Read more X DEQ seeks applications to reduce pollution The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is seeking "pre-proposal" applications beginning today for grants to curb non-point source pollution by addressing surface and groundwater. The so-called Section 319 Grants Program grants are available for government agencies, tribal nations and nonprofit organizations for projects that will lead to the restoration of beneficial uses in impacted water bodies.  About $765,000 of federal money is expected to be available for these grants in 2015. For more information, telephone Bill Meyers, the DEQ's Rogue Basin coordinator, at 514-776-6272, or go to the website www.oregon.gov and search for ODEQ 319 grants. — Mark Freeman » Social News GOLD HILL — Molly Bradley is trying to save the Rogue River one rain garden at a time, and she's got one year to do it. Bradley is Gold Hill's new water-quality improvement coordinator charged with reducing the city's stormwater runoff and all the petroleum, nitrogen and other pollutants that find their way into the Rogue from the city's impervious surfaces such as roads and rooftops. By encouraging residents to add rain barrels to capture rooftop rain, beefed-up riparian zones fortify the riverside and create these rain gardens where runoff is given the chance to soak into the ground for natural filtration by plants such as black cottonwoods, ferns and willows. That's exactly what a demonstration rain garden is doing at the Gold Hill Sports Park, where an often overlooked patch of dirt, plants and rocks next to the parking lot allows water from as far away as Highway 234 to trickle into the ground instead of over it. "It takes all that water and funnels it away from the river," Bradley says. "It reduces the runoff a ton." This so-called "non-point source" pollution is a focus of a state Department of Environmental Quality program that is trying to help cities such as Gold Hill grapple with the kind of surface-water problems more associated with urban areas. Having people such as Bradley create rain gardens and help some of the city's 1,220 residents do the same around sewers and other points where runoff makes its way into the Rogue incrementally helps improve the river, which is both a drinking water source and a wastewater conduit. "It's really progressive on the part of Gold Hill," says Bill Meyers, the DEQ's Rogue Basin coordinator. "It's really ambitious and it's attainable. You do what you can and take the benefits you get." Every year, the DEQ offers grants targeting what its considers to be cost-effective projects that will result in meaningful environmental benefits to waterways, Meyers says. Bradley comes to Gold Hill through AmeriCorps, with the nearly $50,000 in grants for the one-year job coming from a host of sources, including DEQ's section 319 Grants Program, the city of Gold Hill, the Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District and the federal RARE program (Resource Assistance for Rural Environments). It continues similar work done by a college student in Gold Hill last year, Meyers says. Some of Bradley's tasks have included ensuring city codes make it easy for residents to replace hard surfaces such as concrete with pervious stones that let water in. "You want more percolation than runoff," Meyers says. She is also conducting workshops and other outreach events and is helping Hanby Middle School students create a rain garden of their own to curb the amount of runoff to the Rogue generated on school grounds. They identified a sloping dirt walkway off the school's field as a natural funnel location for school ground runoff, which flows down the path and into a storm drain that flows directly to the Rogue. Plans are to replace hard-packed gravel with pervious stones and dig a hole where the runoff will be captured and given a chance to percolate into the ground. What the small pond doesn't capture will instead be filtered by native plants before it ever reaches the drain. Hanby kids not only have helped design the project, but they will do fundraising and get their hands dirty when it gets built next spring, Bradley says. "There are just so many opportunities here," she says. Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 541-776-4470 or [email protected]. Follow him at www.twitter.com/MTwriterFreeman.     By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Nov. 24, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with MailTribune.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services Home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Announcements Obituaries Story ideas Since you asked Alerts Email Alerts RSS Feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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