Over the course of two sun-drenched mornings, Carolina Clear and its collaborators turned an unattractive stormwater detention basin into a state-of-the-art filtration system that is as pretty as it is environmentally friendly. The rain garden built at Green Pond Landing and Event Center in Anderson is technically known as a bioretention cell. But by any name, it’s a carefully crafted and multilayered devourer of stormwater runoff designed to filter, trap and remove contaminants that would otherwise find their way into nearby Lake Hartwell.
