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:

  • Completing Phase II of a watershed study for Peachtree Creek within the Park. The first study was funded with a donation from council member Mary Norwood’s office and completed in early 2024, covering the reach of Peachtree Creek between Northside Drive and Howell Mill Road. The study for Phase II, covering the section of the creek from Northside Drive to the Dellwood Drive pedestrian bridge, is currently underway. When both conceptual plans are complete (by late March/April 2025), AMPC will begin actively identifying partners and funders to complete a transformational restoration of Peachtree Creek within the Park 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 creek revitalization plans 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
  • Partner with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper on Peachtree Creek clean-up events

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

  • 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:

  • 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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