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CITY OF ATLANTA DEPARTMENT of CONSTRUCTION 301 CITY HALL Atlanta 3, Georgia November 22, 1967 RI C H A RD ·w. RE SPE SS ASST . CHIEF OF CONSTRUCTION RAY A . NIXON C h ief of Co n str u ction R OBE RT H. M O RRI SS ASST. C HIEF OF CONSTRUCT I ON 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 c01J1Dents are offered: 1. The request of the Emory Community Legal Services Center was discussed between this office and the State Water Quali ty 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. One 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. 2. 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 S-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. 3. Thia 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 upcoming year. 4. 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 th separate sanitary sewer system in the lower end of the Proctor Creek basin, and at the same time provide the nee saary leeway for the addition of some ten thousand population projected for this area due to the increased drive for housing. ATLANTA THE DOGWO O D CI T Y �- 2 Hon. Ivan Allen, Jr. 5. November 22, 1967 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, £,/uJJi.1&~~ Robert H. Morriss Director Water Pollution Control RBM:ck Enclosures �