The City of Atlanta was issued an over $163,000 fine from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) on May 21 for sewage spills during 2022 and 2023.
The enforcement order, the official document laying out the consequences for violating a permit, said that from July 2022 to June 2023, several of the wastewater treatment plants owned and operated by the City of Atlanta put untreated or partially untreated water into the Chattahoochee and its tributaries that didn’t meet state regulations for cleanliness. It outlined ongoing troubles at the facilities and repeated contamination of the state’s rivers and streams.
In total, there were 106 documented spills, eight of which were major spills exceeding 10,000 gallons of wastewater that entered waterways.
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