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Past Stormwater Steward Winners
2019
Organization: The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Koons Environmental Design, and the University of Georgia Office of University Architects for Facilities Planning for the Alice H. Richards Children's Garden.
2018
Design Firm: New Urban Forestry for their design and installation of a stormwater project at a residential property off Homestead Drive.Business: Athens' Walmart Neighborhood Market and DGC Environmental Services for the installation and maintenance of numerous stormwater facilities that encourage natural infiltration and water quality treatment.
2017
Business/Design Firm: Smith Planning Group for their innovative green infrastructure project (including pervious pavers, a concrete flume, and a pair of rain gardens) designed for the Athens Orthopedic Clinic Imaging Center.
Organization: Watershed UGA for their important impact on the health of ACC watersheds, particularly those on UGA's campus.
2016
Citizen: Gwyneth Moody and Daniel Peiken for their beautiful residential rain garden and bioswale in the front yard of their home.
Business: Bojangles' restaurant and Kimley-Horn and Associates for installing an innovative stormwater treatment train and bioretention area in the back of Bojangles' property.
2015
Citizen: John F. Crowley, PhD for his residential Green Infrastructure including cisterns, permeable surfaces, terraces, and a detention basin, resulting in nearly complete runoff capture.
Business: J’s Bottle Shop and Sam’s Food Mart for their rain garden and pervious parking lot, designed by Ed Lane of the Smith Planning Group.
2014
Citizen: Manita & OC Dean for their home rain garden project.
Organization: Upper Oconee Watershed Network for their citizen science water quality monitoring and outreach.
Community Involvement: John Atkins & Kristi Sego of the ACC Master Naturalist Program for their Rain Garden Project at the UGA Cooperative Extension Office.
2013
Citizen: Evelyn Wenk for her Hill Street rain garden project.
Business: Breedlove Land Planning, Inc. for their work done on the UGA Special Collections Library.
2012
Greg Denzin; G & G Landscape Design for the Nowhere Road Stormwater Runoff Project.
2011
Greg Denzin; G & G Landscape Design for the Hall Street Residential Rain Garden Harvest.
2010
Margie Noonan for the Neighborhood Down the Drain.
2009
Matthew Tanner of Breedlove Land Planning, Inc. for the St. James United Methodist Church.
2008
University of Georgia Office of University Architects for the UGA Performing and Visual Arts Center.
2007
FARMCO Athens Inc for the Jose Iza Project.
2006
Robinson Fisher Koons Inc. for the Firehall 4 Animal Hospital.
2005
Williams and Associates, Land Planners P.C. for the The Arches at Mitchell Street.