The City of Broken Arrow partnered with high school students to build a floating wetland in the shape of the school district’s logo, while helping to build school spirit.
The city owned a detention pond across the street from the high school and wanted to design a second phase to the pond for teaching students and the public about water quality, floodplain protection and environmental stewardship. The pond drains into the Adams Creek which flows into the Verdigris River, the source of residents’ drinking water.
Broken Arrow, near Tulsa and the fourth-largest city in Oklahoma, has a population of 113,000 spread over
