About 15 years ago, a developer in Buckhead illegally drained a wetland. It had been a spot in the forest at the end of a cul-de-sac with little streams and water collecting in pools, where fish, frogs and birds lived.
The trench the developer dug rerouted the creek and drained the water out of the woods.
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