SRWA Files Administrative Complaint as Atlanta Seeks to Permanently Shut Down USGS Monitoring Site on Intrenchment Creek

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Sign SRWA’s ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT to USGS and help keep the one and only crititcal water quality monitoring station on Intrenchment Creek! Your letter will automatically send to decision makers Holly Weyers, USGS SE Regional Director, and David Applegate, National Director.

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Before City of Atlanta convinced USGS to shut down, the Water Quality Monitoring Station on Intrenchment Creek at Constitution Road collected data critical to ensuring that point-source sewage pollution from City of Atlanta’s Combined Sewage Overflow Facilities were not exceeding permitted limits on Intrenchment Creek. Downstream, when the creek joins the South River, the water bodies combine making any data collected from USGS’ suggested new location (a mile downstream on the South River) completely irrelevant to monitoring the pollution coming directly from City of Atlanta facilities on Intrenchment Creek. Sign the letter now!

Read: OUR PRESS RELEASE

Read: USGS’ Proposal to City of Atlanta (to move the station from Intrenchment Creek to 1+ mile downstream on the South River)

USGS Water Quality Monitoring Station on Intrenchment Creek at Constitution Road before it was dismantled. Sign the letter now!