Volume 8, Issue 2
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014
In This Issue
Zonolite Park ......... 1-2 New Floataway Faces ... 3 Natural Body ............ 3 Boi Tips .....................4 Tenant of the Quarter 4
IMPROVED PARK TRAILS for Zonolite
In 2013, the GA Department of Natural Resources awarded Dekalb County about $80,000 in grant money to build trails in Zonolite Park. We are now seeing those improvements come to life!
W
e here at Floataway would like to sa-
back in the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s by manu-
properly. Then there’s a three-layer process
lute our friends at South Fork Con-
facturer W.R. Grace. After the cleanup, SFC
of construction involving landscape fabric, a
servancy. SFC formed their scrappy non-
volunteers spent the next year installing a
gravel base, and a top layer of hardwood
profit about four years ago around a dream
$10,000 donation of dogwoods, maples,
mulch. This is the work currently underway
of connecting greenspace along the south
and other species from Trees Atlanta. They
on the section of trail from the park entrance
fork of Peachtree Creek. To our great de-
also wrote several grants, including one
to the wooden bridge. Next comes construc-
light, they set their sights on Zonolite Park as
on behalf of Dekalb County, which netted
tion of an attractive trailhead with benches
“Phase I” of their efforts.
the funds the county needed to begin real-
and signage. South Fork Conservancy is
izing SFC’s dream of a permanent, well-
overseeing this process as we speak.
They enlisted the talents of landscape ar-
graded, well-drained .08 mile trail system
chitect Susan Stainback (Sylvatica Studio) to
through Zonolite Park’s 12 acres. It’s a lot
Tenacious, determined and eternally opti-
create a master plan, and the attention they
more complicated than you might imagine
mistic, South Fork Conservancy is a won-
brought to the Zonolite Park site spurred
to build trails that will stand the test of time.
derful partner to the Floataway Community,
the EPA to clean up the area, a portion of
First, you have to mark off the trail align-
and we are eternally—and publicly—grate-
which had been contaminated with asbestos
ment. Next, the trail must be graded to drain
ful. Thank you.