Catch the Rain

Community education

Community Education

Green Venture works in the community to offer workshops and consultations, how to resources, and training modules on stormwater reduction.

Community projects

Community Projects

Green Venture hosts and attends various events and we work with community to complete demonstration projects and stewardship at public green spaces. 

Depave Paradise

Canopy for Community

Residential rebates

Residential Rebates

Green Venture offers rebates and resource for residents of Hamilton to install features that will slow down the flow of water and soak it up! This help reduce run off and pollution.

Residential Rebate Program

Virtual Green Infrastructure Tour

Catch the RAIN: Homeowner Installations

2023 Rebate Program Participant Photos

Front yard rain garden with sign highlighting benefits of rain gardens
Downspout into a small rain garden with rock swale
Rock swale in a rain garden surrounded by young, native plants
Rain garden with NATURhoods sign prominent displayed next to native plants
Completed rain garden with native plants and rocks in front of a shed
Rain garden with native plants
Large rain garden featuring native plants and a rock swale on the right
Raised rain barrel connected to house downspout
Rain garden with native plants, stone path, and a downspout connected to rock swale

2022 Rebate Program Participant Photos

Front yard rain garden featuring newly planted native species
Rain barrel connected to a house downspout
Mature rain garden with a downspout and a NATURhoods sign
Long rain garden featuring a downspout into a bioswale
Rain garden with mature native species, rock border, and downspout into a rock swale
Native plants in a rain garden with a downspout leading into it
Rain garden has been incorporated into the removed section of a stone patio
Yard featuring a rock swale

Our Partners + Funders:

Ontario Trillium Foundation, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks*, Conserver Society of Hamilton, City of Hamilton, Hamilton Community Foundation, Clean Foundation and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Canada.

*This project has received funding support from the Government of Ontario. Such support does not indicate endorsement by the Government of Ontario of the contents of this material.

Community Resources:

The City of Hamilton offers property owners of single-family residential homes a grant (subsidy) of up to $2000 for the disconnection of downspouts, installation of a backwater valve and other eligible works that help to reduce the risk of basement flooding. If downspout disconnections are completed by one of the pre-qualified contractors, either in conjunction with the installation of a backwater valve or not, the property owner will be eligible for a reimbursement of $75 per downspout. The grant maximum is $2000 for any of the combined eligible works under the Program. Learn more about this program.

In the news 

Wells, Jon. “‘Greening’ rebate of $500 offered to Hamilton residents for run-off reducing improvements.” The Hamilton Spectator, 7 March 2022,

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2022/03/07/hamilton-greening-rebate-green-venture-rainwater.html

Peesker, Saira. “Hamilton homeowners should think about where water would go in a flood, group says.” CBC, 1 March 2022, 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-homeowners-should-think-about-where-water-would-go-in-a-flood-group-says-1.6367361

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