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 wihin our borders as a catalyst to restore all of the Peachtree Creek sewer basin.
What we are doing:
- Having just completed a watershed study of the first linear mile of Peachtree Creek, AMPC is actively identifying partners and funders to complete a transformational restoration of Peachtree Creek between Northside Drive and Howell Mill Road as phase I of the project.
- 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) (~$95M) in planning and design stage and GA 400 site selection details being worked out
- 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 to Park
- Continue to communicate AMPC’s efforts to improve the Park in the environmental area
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