Climate change is increasing the intensity of flash flooding in Atlanta. While the city has taken measures to mitigate the issue, residents in one watershed say not enough is being done. City Government’s Efforts One blueprint for saving Atlanta from drowning has been around for over 20 years. In 2001, following years of public input, […]
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Chattahoochee Brick Co. site secured, set to become memorial and city park
By Hannah E. Jones The Chattahoochee Brick Company, now a vast, overgrown industrial plot nestled in Northwest Atlanta, was the site of some of the greatest injustices in our state’s history. Today, though, the city is reclaiming that space. After over a year of negotiations, the City of Atlanta is finally set to purchase the […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Chattahoochee Brick Co. site secured, set to become memorial and city park
By Hannah E. Jones The Chattahoochee Brick Company, now a vast, overgrown industrial plot nestled in Northwest Atlanta, was the site of some of the greatest injustices in our state’s history. Today, though, the city is reclaiming that space. After over a year of negotiations, the City of Atlanta is finally set to purchase the […]
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EPA’s mandated review of Georgia rivers usage resumes after two-year lag
The clock is ticking on the state’s review of requests by river advocates to upgrade the designated use of Georgia’s rivers – including the Chattahoochee and South rivers. The effort appears to rely heavily on volunteers with riverkeeper and paddling organizations.
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Chattahoochee RiverLands envisions more people enjoying river’s beauty
For decades, the Chattahoochee River has been an undervalued amenity and unrealized opportunity for the Atlanta region. But that’s about to change.
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Beaver dams a low-tech solution to stormwater management in Atlanta park
Manmade beaver dams have just been installed along a creek in Atlanta’s Blue Heron Nature Preserve and could offer a time-tested, natural method to manage stormwater runoff.
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Citizen scientists gathering information to inform policy decisions in West Atlanta
By Guest Columnist EMILY WEIGEL, of Georgia Tech, with NA’TAKI OSBORNE JELKS, of Agnes Scott College, and RUTHIE YOW, of Georgia Tech.
“I didn’t know crawfish lived in Atlanta!” Peering into the palm of U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Tamara Johnson, a student’s eyes grew wide at the wriggling resident of Proctor Creek. Proctor is a tributary of the Chattahoochee River; it lends its name to the only watershed located entirely in city limits. And its crawfish matter … more than you might imagine.
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Proctor Creek Greenway opens, an amenity with a little anxiety
Official Atlanta got out the big blue scissors on Monday morning, this time to cut the ribbon on some three new miles of multiuse trail along Proctor Creek. It was a morning to celebrate a creek and trail as scenic as anything in North Georgia. But not far from the surface were worries about the flip side of fancy new public works in an area that’s long been bypassed by prosperity.
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Atlanta may be among world’s first cities to use new financing tool for green infrastructure
Atlanta hopes to be included in the second round of cities in the world to pilot an innovative financial tool underwritten by the Rockefeller Foundation. The money would help pay to install green infrastructure to improve the Westside’s polluted Proctor Creek watershed.
