Students from the Raymore-Peculiar Middle School presented information about the steps that they went through with their fellow students and science teachers to design, decide what native plants to plant, and the actual planting and mulching of the rain garden that was placed on the north side of the Middle School at the program presented by the South Grand River Watershed Alliance in Peculiar, Missouri.

After the students, Tim Rielly of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources told about the important role that stormwater plays in the health of Missouri's streams. He covered some of the effects of urbanization on storm water and how it may affect stream systems with the primary focus on stream flow, habitat, sediment input and the cumulative affects on invertebrates, fish and the ecosystem.