Lucerne Beach Club Buffer

To visit the Lucerne Beach Club Buffer, please call 843-7311. There was an opening celebration and tours of the buffer from 9-12 on Saturday, June 12, 2004 . Please remember that the beach club is a private club - visitors to the buffer must have appointments.

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Lucerne Beach Club Buffer Project					Project Dedication


Click Here for a larger detailed version of the image above. This is the overall landscape design created for the Lucerne Beach Club.
Elements of the Lucerne Beach Club Buffer are:
Creekside Restoration	The Rain Gardens	Hillside Plant Walk	Bank stabilization	Buffer planting strips	The Plan

The Lucerne Beach Club buffer project was a collaboration between the beach club and its caretaker, Charlie Lawson; Laura Wilson of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension; Liz Petterson of the Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation Service and Kirsten Reberg-Horton of Kalmia Landscape Design.

The Rain Garden
Rain gardens are designed to catch run-off from roofs or other impermeable surfaces. They are shallow bowls in the landscape filled with 40% sand, 30% soil and 30% compost, covered with a layer of rocks, and interplanted with water-loving plants. They are often accompanied by a rock filled swale or extended gutter system to direct the water from the roof to the garden (at your home, you would want to place your rain-garden 6-10' from the house to prevent the water settling into your basement.) These rain gardens allow run-off from a rain event to slowly settle and filter into ground water. This rain garden contains: Blue Flag Iris, Bog Rosemary, Marsh Marigold, Cardinal Flower and Joe Pye Weed.




Buffer Planting Strips

This is the beginning of the buffer strip that will separate the volleyball area and the beach. This soil is extremely sandy. We will amend it with 16 bags of compost per bed, add lime and carefully till. Then the strip will be planted with a beautiful assortment of shrubs. Buffer strips are non-compacted area that allow rain-water infiltration and catch run-off from more impermeable areas.				The planted strip contains: Summersweet Clethra, Spirea, Dwarf Fothergilla and Quince. These are all flowering shrubs that bloom at different times throughout the season.

Fun with buffer Planting!

Buffer Work Crew: Tara (Americorp employee and work crew leader), Kirsten (landscape designer), Charlie (Beach club caretaker) , Jason and Josh (work crew members and University of Maine students).Not pictured: Kathy (work crew member), Laura (University of Maine Cooperative Extension) and Liz (Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation District).				Charlie provided a wonderful lunch every day the crew is working on the buffer.

To visit the Lucerne Beach Club Buffer, please call 843-7311. There was an opening celebration and tours of the buffer from 9-12 on Saturday, June 12, 2004 . Please remember that the beach club is a private club - visitors to the buffer must have appointments.
The project has been funded by a grant for water quality buffers received by the Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation Service, An Americorp grant written by Laura Wilson and two $500.00 environmental grants from Walmart.