"Lily“ might not look like much, a brown, 55-gallon rain barrel that can be attached to a downspout at one's house, but she is Lexington's newest tool to improve water quality and the environment.
Lily, a rain barrel designed to blend in with landscaping, is joining Herbie, Lenny and Rosie in Lexington's "Wastenot" family of containers.
Lily is being offered to residents at a reduced price of $75 as part of a pilot project to limit the amount of pollutants making their way into local waterways and to promote water conservation, said Penny McFadden, the city's acting director of the Division of Environmental Policy.
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