From its headwaters near the Georgia Dome and the Atlanta University Center to where it empties into the Chattahoochee River near the Perimeter, all of Proctor Creek is inside the city of Atlanta. And city life can be hard on a creek: Big storms make it flood; sewers overflow into it; there’s illegal dumping; and when it rains, the water running off the roads carries trash and chemicals into the creek.
Proctor Creek is a center of attention on Atlanta’s changing Westside. The city is making a big push to clean it up. A pack of nonprofits and government agencies is involved. Developers are interested.
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