Editor's note: The following was submitted by the City of Edmonds.

The City of Edmonds' stormwater group, in partnership with the Snohomish Conservation District, is very excited to see our new rain garden project taking shape in the Sierra Park neighborhood.

Rain gardens are attractive and, for this neighborhood, will eliminate nearly all of the stormwater runoff from the street and private drainage that would normally flow north through Sierra Park and into Perrinville Creek.

The area, 81st Avenue West between 190th and 188th streets southwest, lies within the Perrinville Creek watershe...