DWM Celebrates Completion of Sewer Group 1

The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management successfully completed all work required in the first of two federal consent decrees in 2008. The second consent decree requires inspections and repairs of all other sewer lines by 2014. DWM completed required repairs for all sewer lines in Sewer Group 1 (SG1) on time and under budget in July. SG1 included the most deteriorated sewers in the City.

Under the Sewer System Evaluation Survey (SSES), DWM inspected 331 miles of sewers in SG1. Of those, DWM repaired or replaced 135 miles of sewer line determined to be too damaged to fulfill their necessary function.
DWM has now moved on to SG2–SG6, with SG6 including sewers that are expected to be in the best condition. As of July, DWM had rehabbed 50 percent of the sewers identified by SSES as needing repair (306 of 607 miles).

The repairs eliminate leaks that waste water and provide additional sewer capacity to support development. Additionally, sewer rehabilitation helps eliminate sewer overflows that pollute rivers and streams.