A Sustainable Way Of Living
Good land-use planning shapes neighborhoods into healthier, more efficient spaces for generations. That’s how this community started. By noting all facets of the naturally sloping, rocky landscape, including its water sources as well as the surrounding air, soil, light and trees. Then the outdoors were brought inside as much as possible. Design focused on quality views and daylighting to curb energy use. The buildings were positioned next to multi-use trails. And 192 solar panels were installed to provide an estimated 78,000 kilowatt hours of renewable electricity for Quarry Town each year. That’s a carbon footprint reduction equivalent to planting more than 1,500 trees!
Preserving The Land & Recycling Materials
Sustainable materials were chosen for interior features like locally quarried Phenix Marble countertops, recycled walnut lounge mantle and shagbark hickory bench. Recycled wood came from hickory, walnut and oak trees harvested during construction. Now they live on as coffee tables, end tables and other furnishings. Mindfully chosen materials made of low-emitting volatile organic compounds (VOC) were for all our other finishes.
Protecting Waters & the Floodplain
A watershed receives and collects precipitation in a stream system. Our community’s small watershed drains into the James River and eventually Table Rock Lake. Development and land uses like Quarry Town can affect these pathways by altering surface runoff and groundwater infiltration. Care was taken during construction to improve our water resources.
Galloway Creek
Galloway Creek is a 5-mile long tributary creek near our property that flows southeast and runs parallel to the railroad tracks. It meanders through Sequiota Park and by historic Sequiota Cave, near restaurants and shops of old Galloway Village, past art sculptures and along the Galloway Creek Greenway. Follow its flow on foot or gliding down the greenway on your bike.
