Projects
Clean Water Atlanta
Interactive Projects Map
Piedmont Road Sewer Capacity Improvement
Water Main Replacement Program
ATL READ - Automated Meter Reading (AMR)
South River Tunnel & Pumping Station Project
Sewer
System Evaluation Survey
Sewer
System Rehab Projects
Valve and Hydrant Program
Clear Creek Combined Sewer Capacity Relief Project (PDF)
For more information on any DWM projects, please contact our Project Helpline at 404.529.9211 or cleanwateratl@atlantaga.gov.
Completed and ongoing projects
Under Clean Water Atlanta, the City has already:
• Constructed the 8-mile-long, 16-foot-diameter Nancy Creek Tunnel, which has reduced SSOs in the North Atlanta/Dunwoody area by 70 percent (1,000 overflows in 2000; fewer than 300 in 2008);
• Built the Custer Avenue Storage and Dechlorination Facility, which can store up to 10 million gallons of combined sewage for transfer to the South River treatment plant;
• Separated 33 miles of combined sewers, reducing stormwater-related overflows in three sewer basins;
• Purchased about 2,000 acres of streamside property in eight metro area counties for protection in perpetuity; and
• Constructed the 8.5-mile-long, 24 foot-diameter West Area CSO Tunnel, which can store up to 177 million gallons of combined sewage for transfer to a dedicated treatment plant.
Additionally, though it was not required to do so under the consent decrees, the City has replaced about 100 miles of water mains that were aged and leaking.
Infrastructure programs currently ongoing include:
• The Sewer System Evaluation Survey and related rehab, under which the City is inspecting every inch of its 1,600 miles of sewer pipe and repairing those that are cracked, leaking or otherwise damaged (to date, 1,287 of a total of 1,580 miles, 82 percent, have been inspected; 314 miles of the estimated 607 that will need repair have been completed);
• Cleaning sewers under Operation Clean Sewer, a program to reduce spills associated with stormwater infiltration and blockages from debris and grease, with a goal (exceeded) of 25 percent of the system per year;
• Design and construction of a 2.5-billion-gallon drinking water reservoir in Northwest Atlanta, a $190 million project construction of which will likely be accelerated as the City attempts to mitigate the effects of Judge Paul Magnuson’s order in the Tri-State Water Wars;
• Grease management inspections that kept 1.15 million gallons of grease of out the system in the first quarter of 2009
• Construction of the South River Tunnel, which will capture and store sanitary sewer overflows in South Atlanta;
• Construction of new water mains in the Georgia Tech Midtown area;
Meter replacement program, under which the City is replacing or retrofitting 150,000 meters with Automated Meter Reading capability;
• Implementation of the Valve & Hydrant Program, under which the City is locating and identifying its valves and hydrants, making necessary repairs and collecting information for inclusion in a Geographic Information System;
• Reduction of backlog in the past three years from 3,100 meter leaks to under 100 and from 2,400 service leaks to 150; this stepped-up leak repair program has resulted in the repair of about 750 leaks per month, the same number United Water was repairing a year when it was operating the City’s drinking water system from 1999-2003.
• Development and implementation of an upgraded backflow compliance program;
Implementation of a large meter asset management program in January 2009;
• Reduction in the number of boil water advisories from nine in 2002 to zero in 2008 and one in 2009;
• Design of a number of transmission mains to improve service in a number of South Atlanta communities.
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