Redondo Union students unveil ocean-friendly garden
AP Environmental Science students from Redondo Union High School with teacher Mary Simun (center) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony launching the high school’s ocean-friendly garden. Photo During recent rains, Redondo Union High School AP Environmental Science teacher Mary Simun and her students paid eager attention to a particular patch of soil on Diamond Street, hoping and praying it would retain the rainwater that for years has been flowing into the sewer and ultimately the ocean. To their delight, it did. AP science and special needs students are enormously proud of the ocean-friendly garden they’ve helped to create and nurture with assistance from West Basin Municipal Water District and the Surfrider Foundation, and with funding from Metropolitan Water District, the Department of Water Resources, and California Water Service Company. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday, they celebrated what Simun called a “learning lab,” a garden with permeable soil and low-flow irrigation systems. Outfitted with sheet mulch, drip irrigation (as opposed to spray irrigation), and drought-tolerant native plants, the garden does not discharge rainwater – which flows from a nearby roof – as…
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