DeKalb leaders will hold a community meeting next week to discuss improvements planned for the county’s “second worst sewer spill site.”
Officials said Green Street — a short residential street south of Agnes Scott College near the Oakhurst neighborhood of Decatur — has seen 22 sewer spills since 2012. That's the most of any location in spill-plagued DeKalb excepting Melanie Court, a site further south where repairs began last year.
New sewer pipes will be installed on Green Street and in surrounding neighborhoods, officials said.
A formal presentation with more information on the project will be offered during the community meeting scheduled for 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10.
The event will be held in the Frances Graves Auditorium at Agnes Scott College’s Campbell Hall, located at 141 East College Ave. in Decatur.
DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond and leaders from the Department of Watershed Management will present.
DeKalb County has been under a federal consent decree to repair its aging water and sewer infrastructure since 2011. The county will miss the original deadline set for June of this year, but an extension is being negotiated.
Sewer spill volumes had decreased in DeKalb in 2018 and 2019, but historic amounts of rain have helped fuel a rocky start to 2020.
A 9.2-million-gallon spill near Lithonia last month marked the largest reported spill in more than a decade.
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