Georgia Power - Process    History  Process  Bioengineering  Birdhouse Construction  Future  Return to Georgia Power Demonstration Project    The program for the site encompasses the residents' vision for a passive recreational park that features educational interpretive elements and enhances the natural resources of the site. Design elements were incorporated into the conceptual plan and then presented at monthly community meetings. The plans were enthusiastically received by the neighborhoods. The concept includes a multi-use trailway with boardwalks over wetlands and limited access trails that lead into environmentally sensitive areas for educational purposes. Potential additional elements include outdoor classrooms, viewing towers, several points of access to the river, butterfly gardens, bird and bat house complexes, community gardens, small open areas for spontaneous play, water harvesting earthworks, enhancement of existing wetlands and stream bank stabilization using bio-engineering technology. In September 1997 the design team completed construction documents based on the program of the approved conceptual design.   Harvesting earthworks border the Blue Circle Cement Plant site.   In this basin are a series of teardrop berms with small catchment recesses located between the berms. This drainage design is a concept that combines an engineered swale with the traditional terracing associated with agriculture fields.       History  Process  Bioengineering  Birdhouse Construction  Future  Return to Georgia Power Demonstration Project    1997 Landscape Architecture Foundation Demonstration Project  Sponsored by Urban Resources Partnership  Last updated on 13 February 1998