Chattahoochee & Flint River Basin TMDLs

Last modified Monday, July 07, 2008 9:10

In the first half of 2004, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) worked with county and city governments and local water and sewer authorities in the Chattahoochee and Flint Basins to develop plans for 41 stream segments (PDF) to specifically reduce bacteria and sediment to meet water quality standards. ARC and its partner agencies have drafted the plans and submitted the plans to GA EPD. View a map of these stream segments (PDF)

TMDL Implementation Plans

• John Creek and Suwanee Creek Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans fo Ball Mill Creek (Fulton/Dekalb Counties), Crooked Creek (Tributary to Chattahoochee River), Johns Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River), Level Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River), Richland Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River), and Suwanee Creek (Mill Creek to Chattahoochee River)
• Big Creek Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Big Creek (Hwy 400 to Chattahoochee River),  Foe Killer Creek (Fulton County)
• Rottenwood Creek, Sope Creek and Others Watersheds (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Bishop Creek (Cobb County), Long Island Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River), March Creek (Fulton County), Rottenwood Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River), Sewell Mill Creek (Cobb County), Sope Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River)
• Peachtree Creek, Nancy Creek and Others Watersheds (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Arrow Creek (Atlanta), Bubbling Creek (DeKalb County), Burnt Fork Creek (DeKalb County), Lullwater Creek (DeKalb County), Nancy Creek (Headwaters to Peachtree Creek, Atlanta), North Fork Peachtree Creek (Headwaters to Peachtree Creek), Peachtree Creek (I-85 to Chattahoochee River, Atlanta), Peavine Creek (DeKalb County), South Fork Peachtree Creek (Atlanta)
• Chattahoochee River, Nickajack Creek and Others Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Chattahoochee River (Peachtree Creek to Utoy Creek), Nickajack Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River), Proctor Creek (Headwaters to Chattahoochee River, Atlanta), Sandy Creek (also known as Cooper Sandy Creek) (I-285 to Chattahoochee River), South Utoy Creek (Headwaters to Fairburn Rd., Atlanta), Utoy Creek (Atlanta)
• Sweetwater Creek and Others Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Buttermilk Creek (Cobb County), Mud Creek (GA. Hwy. 120 to Noses Creek), Olley Creek (Cobb County), Sweetwater Creek (US Pine Valley Rd. to Noses Creek)
• Chattahoochee River and Others Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Chattahoochee River (Utoy Creek to Pea Creek), Mobley Creek (Douglas County), White Oak Creek (Fulton county)
• Chattahoochee River Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Chattahoochee River (Pea Creek to Wahoo Creek)
• Flint River and Tributary to Flint River Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Flint River (Road S1058 / Woolsey Rd. to Horton Creek), Tributary to Flint River (College Park), Flint River (Hartsfield Airport to HWY 138)
• Whitewater Creek Watershed (PDF) Includes Implementation Plans for Whitewater Creek (Upstream Lees Lake)

The documents below are the basis for this project. They explain the methodology used to develop the pollution budgets (known as TMDLs). They also identify the water quality goal for each stream segment and how that goal will be achieved through what is called a “percent load reduction.” Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) has asked ARC to address 41 stream segments with high levels of fecal coliform bacteria or sediment within the Chattahoochee and Flint basins.

• Chattahoochee River Basin TMDL for Fecal Coliform (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDL for Fecal Coliform (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDL for Sediment (PDF)

Fecal coliform and sediment are not the only pollutants that are sampled for water quality in area streams. However, GA EPD has developed TMDLs for other pollutants and has developed the plans to address those pollutants. Please contact Mary Gazaway (404.675.1745) with GA EPD's Water Protection Branch, if you have any questions regarding these other types of pollution.  

TMDL's for Other Pollutants:

• Chattahoochee River Basin TMDL for Zinc (PDF)
• Chattahoochee River TMDL for Temperature (PDF)
• Chattahoochee River Basin TMDL for PCBs in Fish Tissue (PDF)
• Chattahoochee River Basin TMDL for Dissolved Oxygen (PDF)
• Chattahoochee River Basin TMDL for Copper (PDF)
• Chattahoochee River Basin TMDL for Sediment (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDL for Lead (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDLs for Dissolved Oxygen (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDL for DDD and DDE in Fish Tissue (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDL for Copper (PDF)
• Flint River Basin TMDL for Zinc (PDF)

For more information on the Cleaner Streams project, please contact us at 404.463.3100.

Note: Prepared by the Atlanta Regional Commission with the support of the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The preparation of this web site was funded in part through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.