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Part of what makes Pomona such a great place to be or to
visit is the beautiful natural surroundings it has to offer.
But landscaping efforts can easily gobble up money and
resources, including water, chemical fertilizers and
pesticides, and the fossil fuels it takes to run our
maintenance equipment. In the past few years, we’ve done a
lot to try to reduce the environmental impact of our
landscaping program. Here are just some of the things we do
to help:
- Recycle all green waste into reusable, nutritious mulch
- Collect all leaves from the streets and mulch at the Wash
- Convert 2-3 irrigation systems each year to drip
irrigation, which use water far more efficiently
- Actively choose drought-resistant plantings with a focus
on xeriscaping, landscaping for arid climates
- Emphasize appropriate landscape design, putting plants
that need more water in wetter areas of campus and plants
that need less water in drier areas
- Leave existing Bermuda grass sod, which use less water,
instead of replacing it with other grasses (which used to be
the practice)
- Install new recycling receptacles throughout campus for
more access
- Run the irrigation system with data from the on-campus
weather station (near the Farm) so that when it rains, we
don’t water unnecessarily
Pomona College’s campus is approximately 140 acres, many of
which are beautifully landscaped. The campus’ open space
incorporates approximately:
- 43.9 percent shrub or groundcover
- 21.2 percent sport turf
- 33.5 percent other turf
- 1.4 percent mulch or pervious pavement
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