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On Monday, Sound Rivers Program Director Clay Barber and Program Assistant Sierra Stickney Digan paid a visit to Southern Nash High School and donated some educational signage to the campus.

Signs now illustrate the purpose of stormwater control measures constructed on school grounds through Sound Rivers’ Campus Stormwater Program. In late 2024, three projects were installed: a rain garden, a rainwater harvesting cistern and regenerative stormwater conveyance system (RSC).

“The signs can be used during outdoor education to provide a visual of what each stormwater control measure’s purpose is,” Sierra said.

All three projects work to prevent flooding and erosion caused by stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces such as roofs and parking lots, and the rain garden and RSC provide an additional benefit of filtering pollutants from runoff by slowing water down, allowing it spread out and sink into the soil.

Clay and Sierra installed the signs themselves, renting an auger to bore signpost holes, but because of tree roots near the cistern, they did have to erect the cistern’s signage the old-fashioned way, digging by hand.

“It was pretty sweaty work,” Clay laughed.

Sierra said plenty of people assisted with recent construction of Southern Nash’s Campus Stormwater Program projects and signage: Nash County Public Schools, Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant, Kris Bass Engineering, Rainstorm Solutions and Thomas Duncan Design.

“Thank you to all these partners that made the projects and the signs possible,” she said.

Like Sound Rivers Campus Stormwater Program? Find out more about it here and/or donate today to support Sound Rivers’ stormwater work on campuses across the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds!