Sustainability

In 2012, flooding and erosion prompted Ohio’s Beavercreek Township to close a bridge crossing that connected three of the area’s recreational parks—Rotary Park, Phillips Park and the Beavercreek Wetlands Nature Preserve—shutting down access to a number of popular hiking trails. While park employees had pieced together the original bridge from used county highway bridge materials, the Township decided that it was time for something different.

byKaren Laird