The Milton City Council has approved a project agreement with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources that would secure $100,000 in state funds for the construction of restrooms at Providence Park.
Milton will be required to provide a 50 percent match of the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant, according to a memo to the council by Parks and Recreation Director Jim Cregge. Total project cost is $200,000.
The project agreement calls for ecologically friendly, self-composting toilets and waterless urinals, eliminating the need for a septic tank; roof systems planted with native vegetation; solar-powered lighting along the building pathway; bioswales, or landscaping to remove the pollution of surface runoff water; and an “educational component,” a covered open-air walkway between two informational stations.
Providence Park is a former Fulton County park that was closed for 12 years until Milton acquired it, cleaned it up and reopened it in November 2016. It currently has only one, ADA-accessible, portable toilet, Cregge said.
