Hillcrest Public School, Barrie (2017)

Host: Environment Network
Area depaved: 480 square meters
About: About 100 students from Hillcrest Public School participated in the creation of a natural space and outdoor classroom on their school ground. The tennis and basketball courts made room for a permeable play area, featuring 100 trees, plants, and shrubs that will act as filters and sponges for polluted stormwater runoff. The new depaved area will also help divert phosphorus and other runoff from a cold water fish bearing creek below the depave site. 
Photos: Environment Centre, Hillcrest PS

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 Unity Christian High School, Barrie (2016)

Host: Windfall Ecology Centre
Area depaved: 84 square meters
About: The Depave event was the first phase of a much larger project to green the school grounds.Once complete, the project will become a demonstration site that showcases low impact development (LID) features and effective stormwater management techniques, such as rain gardens, bioswales, permeable pavement, and more. Prior to this event, the school's property was nearly 100% paved and impermeable, producing large volumes of rain and stormwater runoff that flowed untreated into storm drains and into nearby Lake Simcoe. 
Photos: Windfall Ecology Centre

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