Friday, August 3, 2012
Disaster! Unless you're a scuba diver, avoid Historic Fourth Ward skatepark for the next day or so
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:09 PM
A failure of the Old Fourth Ward greenspace's erosion control system during last night's intense storms have left the skate park and adjacent field submerged in a caramel-colored nastiness. An Atlanta Beltline spokesman says workers with the city's Parks Department were on scene earlier today and are determining why the system failed. It's not clear when the area will be cleaned up.
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