Storm Water Quality

Texas SmartScape™ CD

The Texas SmartScape™ CD helps developers and new home owners in North Central Texas learn how to reduce use of water, pesticides and fertilizers by landscaping with native and adapted plants. By using plants that require little or no pesticides or fertilizers to grow, the amount of pollutants being washed into local creeks and rivers can be reduced. Many of the plants featured in the CD are drought tolerant, and will also attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Texas SmartScape™ is the result of regional cooperation among many cities and counties through the North Central Council of Governments Storm Water Management Program. The CD was created as both a storm water quality best management practice for New Development and as a water conservation project.

SmartScape’s™ primary objective is to encourage new homeowners, before they finalize their landscaping plans, to plant native and adapted plants. These plants typically require little or no pesticide or fertilizer to grow. Also, these plants usually require less water to maintain. The secondary objective is to provide SmartScape™ to many others in North Texas also interested in growing beautiful plants that require less pesticide, fertilizer and water while providing a beneficial ecological impact to native wildlife.

The City of Fort Worth Water Department will distribute CDs in conjunction with presentations it is making, such as presentations on how to save water in the landscape. CDs will also be distributed to attendees at the twice a year Yard Smart Seminars, at booths at the Fort Worth Home & Garden Show, and the Neil Sperry ALL Garden Show. Copies of the CD are also available for viewing at the Fort Worth Central Library, 500 W. Third St., in the business section.

The Texas Smartscape is online! Click here!