Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy

Restoring, protecting and preserving Atlanta Memorial Park

Watershed

Our vision is to improve the overall experience of those using Atlanta Memorial Park by working with various partners to constructively address and resolve environmental issues impacting the Park and Peachtree Creek and its eroding streambanks.

Our goals:

  • Improve and protect water quality in Peachtree Creek and the condition of the banks along Peachtree Creek
  • Collaborate with the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management (DWM) and others to address any environmental issues impacting the Park and the Peachtree Creek Watershed Basin. The Conservancy led with a focus on eliminating negative environmental impacts, including wet weather sewer overflows during flooding events. With those goals achieved, AMPC’s work is now focusing on using the section of Peachtree Creek within our borders as a catalyst to restore all of the Peachtree Creek sewer basin.

What we are doing:

  • In 2025, AMPC’s executive director was chosen to be a member of an Infrastructure-Sustainability Task Force created by council member Mary Norwood. Other members include Department of Watershed Management Commissioner Greg Eyerly or his representative, Atlanta Department of Transportation Commissioner Solomon Caviness or his representative, Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Justin Cutler or his representative, Chief Operating Officer LaChandra Burks or her representative, Chief Strategy Officer Peter Aman or his representative, Chief Sustainability Officer Chandra Farley or her representative, Professional Engineer Kim Shorter, Professional Engineer Justin Wiedeman, Livable Buckhead Executive Director Denise Sterling, and Buckhead Coalition’s President.
    • The purpose of the Task Force is to review and improve the Tanyard Creek facility and the RM Clayton facility, including but not limited to the separation of the Nancy Creek sewer tunnel from the CSO tunnels. In addition, the legislation named Peachtree Creek as a major urban creek, which needs rehabilitation and restoration and for which a study for Conceptual Planning Services has been produced for Peachtree Creek by Davey Resource Group. The creation of the Infrastructure -Sustainability Task Force will produce timely and effective results to improve the quality of life and health of this area of the City of Atlanta.
  • To date, AMPC has raised over $73,000 towards a $121,000 Conceptual Study to assess the conditions of Peachtree Creek from the confluence to the Chattahoochee River, a 7.5 mile reach. If AMPC reaches its goal to fully fund the study by November 2025, the 121 Study will begin before the end of 2025. (See “What we have done” for more on the two studies that have already been completed by Davey Resource Group.)
  • In the summer of 2025, AMPC assembled a coalition of stakeholders along Peachtree Creek from the confluence to the Chattahoochee River to hear from AMPC’s consultant, Brian Kwiatkowski of Davey Resource Group. Brian reviewed the two studies that have already been completed and discussed the full 7.5 mile reach to be studied.
  • AMPC’s fundraising consultant, Bedrock Group, will conduct a feasibility study for Phase One of the Fix Peachtree Creek project.
  • Once the feasibility study and 121 Study are complete in 2026, AMPC will work with partners and identify funders to complete a transformational restoration of Peachtree Creek within the Park (Phase One) to serve as a model for the rest of the Peachtree Creek basin. Community outreach will be a big part of the project with multiple meetings to occur before any plans are finalized.
  • Meeting with local schools and universities to find the ideal partnership to continue AMPC’s mission to forward the Conservancy’s Fix Peachtree Creek project by leveraging partnerships to amplify the importance of water quality and creek habitat restoration of the Atlanta urban waterways that serve a diversity of neighborhoods
  • Continue partnering with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper on Peachtree Creek clean-up events

 What we have done (DWM Projects Planned/Completed):

  • Completed a watershed study for Peachtree Creek within Atlanta Memorial Park, 1.5 miles of the 7.5 reach from the confluence to the Chattahoochee River. The first and second studies were funded with donations from council member Mary Norwood’s office. The first study, between Northside Drive and Howell Mill Road, was completed in early 2024, with the second study, between Northside Drive and the Dellwood Drive pedestrian bridge, completed in May of 2025.
  • Met quarterly with DWM and members of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) (established in 2016 after the flooding and sewer overflows in 2015) to review and assess environmental issues. Discussed status of DWM projects, and proposed and implemented solutions
  • Organized community meetings with the surrounding neighborhoods and others regarding environmental issues impacting the Park and DWM’s proposed solutions to improve capacity and efficiency in the Peachtree Creek Watershed Basin
  • Initiated Peachtree Creek Trunk Stabilization Project – Inspection, cleaning and installation of a PVC liner system for 11,000 LF of 96” pipe
  • Peachtree Creek Relief Lines in Park cleared of debris
  • Aerial Sewer Crossings (Howell Mill/Woodward Way over Peachtree Creek removed in 2019/2020
  • North Fork Storage Tank (15 MG) & Pump Station (75 MGD) (~$145M) underway with a completion date in late 2026.
  • DWM regularly monitoring/diverting flows in the Peachtree Creek Basin to increase capacity, inspecting and cleaning sewer lines and removing debris build-up in Peachtree Creek

Our future plans:

  • Begin construction on Phase One of the Fix Peachtree Creek project.
  • Continue to be actively involved in the resolution of environmental issues impacting the Park
  • Continue to communicate AMPC’s efforts to improve the Park in the environmental area

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