There’s over 7000 adopters with more than 10,000 drains, so we’ve got a bunch of names throughout the metro,” said Britta Dornfield, outreach specialist with Coon Creek Watershed District. Drain names are all over the board, but a few come up more often than others. “We see a lot of Purple Drain, and Drainy McDrainface, or people just naming it after their street or their family,” said Dornfield. Earlier this spring, the Adopt-a-Drain program was featured in the blaine newsletter, that’s when Amanda Kubacki Postma and her family first heard of the program and decided to get involved. Working with the neighbors, and their families they collectively adopted nine drains. “We did the ones closest to our houses,” said Kubacki Postma, as she pointed out drains on several streets. A group of kids in the neighborhood each signed up to adopt one of these drains, and they named themselves the Alabrota Lane Kids. Kubacki Postma’s daughter Grace was chosen as having the best drain name across all of Blaine. “My friend Kalen did “Purple Drain,” said Grace Postma. “We decided to do a song, and I thought “Somewhere Over the Drainbow.” Grace won a drain cleaning kit as a prize, and all of the neighborhood kids involved with the cleaning project were given awards from the watershed district as well. “Just having kids involved is so great, to having them doing this and really starting young learning about how what they do on the land impacts the water,” said Dornfield.
BLAINE FAMILIES HONORED FOR EFFORTS TO KEEP STORM DRAINS CLEAN
BLAINE – (May 6, 2021) – The Adopt-a-Drain program asks volunteers to clean a storm drain near their home twice a month. It’s a simple online form to adopt a drain, and in the adoption, you also get to name the drain.
