Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
GRU provides the entire gardens with reclaimed water for irrigation
GRU is a principal sponsor of the Kanapaha Botanical Garden Summer House, which demonstrates sustainable building practices. Visit GRU’s exciting interactive touch-screen kiosk located in the Summer House. You can learn energy and water saving tips and view a layout of the gardens.
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is the site of GRU's first water reuse project designed to demonstrate the safety and beauty of reclaimed water. Kanapaha is a 62-acre botanical garden near Gainesville that features plants, trees and a wildlife sanctuary.
GRU also partnered with the North Florida Botanical Society to design a reclaimed water garden at the Botanical Gardens that simulated a "spring to sink" Florida ecosystem. The purity of reclaimed water has caused the water garden to flourish, as it now is home to large predators such as alligators— a sign that the water garden ecosystem is vigorous. The Kanapaha Botanical Gardens Water Garden consists of:
- An upper pond
- A 600-foot meandering stream
- Four waterfalls
- A lower pond
