Box 12, Folder 6, Document 13

Box 12, Folder 6, Document 13

CITY OF ATLANTA

DEPARTMENT of CONSTRUCTION

301 CITY HALL

Atlanta 3, Georgia
November 22, 1967

RICHARD W. RESPESS

RAY A. NIXON ASST. CHIEF OF CONSTRUCTION
Chief of Construction

ROBERT H. MORRISS
ASST. CHIEF OF CONSTRUCTION

Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor

City of Atlanta

City Hall

Dear Mayor Allen:

With regard to the attached letter and report from the State Water Quality Control
Board, the following comments are offered:

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4.

The request of the Emory Community Legal Services Center was discussed
between this office and the State Water Quality Control Board prior to the
delivery of a copy of the report to that Service Center. It is apparent
that this group is working in conjunction with some of the residents of

the Proctor Creek basin in an effort to speed some solutions to the many
problems that they visualize in that area. Ome of the problems concerns
itself with the high level of pollution and the flooding problems associated
with the Proctor Creek area which have been problems of long standing and
some of which will remain for a long time in the future, I fear.

The City of Atlanta has a working plan to provide relief from sanitary sewer
overflows and the worst elements of the pollution load in Proctor Creek, but
unfortunately that plan, as programmed in 1963, 64 and 65, required a 5-year
time period for a reasonable degree of relief. This is not satisfactory,

in light of the recent desire for increased low-rent housing areas which
have a great potential in the land resources available in this basin.

This office has revised its plans relative to the reduction of pollution in
the Proctor Creek basin in an effort to conform with the desires of the
administration relative to low-rent housing in this area and have provided
for some temporary relief to existing and projected problems during the up-
coming year.

A major item in this program is the $250,000.00 temporary treatment facility
proposed in the Water Pollution Control Division's 1968 budget. This facility
is intended to prevent the overflow of untreated sanitary sewage from the
separate sanitary sewer system in the lower end of the Proctor Creek basin,
and at the same time provide the necessary leeway for the addition of some

ten thousand population projected for this area due to the increased drive

for housing.

ATLANTA THE DOGWOOD CITY
Hon. Ivan Allen, Jr. November 22, 1967

5. There are several other problem areas in the Proctor Creek basin that will
receive attention during late 1967 and early 1968. This office will be
glad to brief you on problem areas and proposed solutions in this area at
your convenience.

I trust that this will provide you some general information relative to the
report enclosed and enable you to have a talking knowledge of the problem at
hand,

Yours very truly,

foal - f Mer ed

Robert H. Morriss
Director
Water Pollution Control

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