This fall, benches made out of recycled wind turbines are coming to Coralville.

The benches, which range in width from four to eight feet, are made by slicing decommissioned wind turbine blades, then shaping them.

Coralville is getting 10 benches — two for Northridge Park and eight for the Clear Creek Greenbelt trail. The city council approved spending $34,856 to buy and ship the benches, which will arrive primed and unpainted.

Once the benches are delivered, they’ll sit in a warehouse at Iowa River Landing where they’ll be painted by local artists. Director of Parks and Recreation Sherri Proud said she hopes to have a “call for creativity” out in October for bench artwork that celebrates the Clear Creek area.

“The call for creativity will be very specific … it will be a listing of how would you tell this story … There would be room for creativity within the topic that we give (the artist),” Proud said at a Coralville City Council meeting earlier this year.

Proud said the city is in the process of finding community sponsors to help cover the $15,000 needed to have the benches painted by local artists.

Currently, there are only two benches the entire 6.4-mile length of the Clear Creek Greenbelt Trail.