Sandy Springs To Cut Ribbon On Marsh Creek Rain Garden Park

SANDY SPRINGS, GA -- Next month, the city of Sandy Springs will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Marsh Creek Rain Garden Park, its first urban stormwater treatment park.

The event will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 100 Johnson Ferry Road, which is located between Sandy Springs Circle and Bonnie Lane/Wright Road.

The Marsh Creek Rain Garden Park is an innovative program designed to improve water quality by treating and filtering stormwater runoff before it flows into Marsh Creek, the tributary leading into the Chattahoochee River.

Sandy Springs notes the project is anticipated to reduce flooding and stream bank erosion in the neighborhoods surrounding the immediate headwater area by reducing and controlling stormwater flow.

The design incorporates hardscape and softscape features, creating an area that will be an attractive greenspace. Other features include a permanent wet pond with a fountain, walking loop, observation deck, extensive landscaping, benches, educational interpretive signage to explain the stormwater treatment process, as well as a bio-retention area with specially selected plant species to remove pollutants from stormwater runoff.

This project is partially funded by a Nonpoint Source 319(h) Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division.

Parking is limited at this location, so residents in adjacent neighborhoods are strongly encouraged to walk.

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