Five Mile Creek Greenway

It’s been a big week for learning about the Five Mile Creek Partnership. On Tuesday April 5, Our One Mile Tuesday with Jeh Jeh Pruitt featured Tarrant’s Chief Hewitt Park early Tuesday morning. Wendy Jackson, Michael Sznajderman, Tarrant  Mayor Loxcil Tuck and Center Point Mayor Tom Henderson all had some great sound bites about the Partnership. Below are the links to the three videos.

http://www.myfoxal.com/category/195956/video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5724363

Part 2

http://www.myfoxal.com/category/195956/video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5724708

In the April 2011 Green Issue of Birmingham Magazine, Five Mile Creek Partnership coordinator Francesca Gross is featured talking about the Partnership and its value to the area.

http://www.bhammag.com/bhammag/april_11_my_bham.aspx

We love Sunshine Supplies!

May 6, 2010 Gary Norwood from Sunshine Supplies launched a Floating Island in the Reed-Harvey Park Children’s Fishing Pond, in Center Point, Alabama.  Sunshine Supplies donated the island to Center Point!

The island is about 3 feet by 4 feet and planted with flowering wetland plants.  These islands are made of special material to encourage root growth and buoyancy.  The plant roots pull nitrogen, phosphorus, and other elements from the water through their roots.  The island (called Bass Haven©) provides shade and food for fish.  Center Point is the ONLY place in Alabama that has this experimental water-treatment island. Gary Norwood and Center Point Public Works Shanda Williams will be monitoring its success and planning for more for other Center Point ponds.

Here’s a science fact from Floating Islands International : one square foot of BioHaven® floating island is sufficient to reduce nitrate by over 10 grams per day, ammonia by up to 0.7 gram per day, and phosphate by 0.5 grams per day. See more about islands – click HERE

Here’s a fun fact – turtles, frogs and fish love floating islands. Take a walk around the children’s pond in Reed-Harvey Park and look for turtles soaking up the sun!

Map to Floating Island