Beachwood Middle School Ecology Club Learns About Rainwater

Beachwood Middle School is working to teach the next generation about environmental sustainability.

Math teacher Melanie Deluca leads the school’s Ecology Club, which has built a rain garden on the school grounds in partnership with the Euclid Creek Watershed and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.

The City of Beachwood helped prepare the ground and a representative from the watershed visited the club to teach them about rain gardens, which allow water runoff from parking lots and sidewalks to return to the ground instead of flowing into a sewer system.

The club has also revamped the school’s courtyard, planting flowers and adding a compost bin to re-use the brush waste as soil.

“The Ecology Club has done a fantastic job and has really improved the beautification of the plantings of our commons area,” said principal Linda LoGalbo. 

Also, this week, the club helped organize a contest for all the students at the school: students wore colors every day representing clean air, water and soil. The class with the most participation will win a pizza party.