Marsh Creek Public Art Sculpture Unveiling On Sept. 28

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — The Riverside West Garden Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a donation of a gift to the city of Sandy Springs. The city will unveil the gift, a public art sculpture, at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 28 at the Marsh Creek Rain Garden Park at 100 Johnson Ferry Road.

The Heron and Daffodil wrought iron sculpture was created by Andrew Crawford. Crawford, who grew up in the Riverside West neighborhood, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has created ironwork, and sculptures, for private, corporate, municipal and museum collections across the country.

The Riverside West Garden Club was organized Feb. 21, 1968, to encourage interest in all phases of home gardening and to promote horticultural practices, civic beauty and conservation of natural resources.

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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. Its 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.

The park is located between Sandy Springs Circle and Bonnie Lane/Wright Road. You should note that parking is limited, so residents in adjacent neighborhoods are strongly encouraged to walk to the ceremony.

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