Comments on: The River Gets A Nudge

By: JP

JP — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:22:55 +0000

The park along Azalea in Roswell is pretty nice, and the smell isn’t too bad.

By: Smoove D

Smoove D — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:54:15 +0000

There’s a river by Canoe? I’ve been a couple of times and never noticed it. I guess I was too busy checking out the Buckhead Bettys.

Calling the Chattahoochee a river is rather generous. Sewage repository would be more accurate.

By: Paul Kelman

Paul Kelman — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:52:15 +0000

Between Lake Lanier and Peachtree Creek, development within 2,000 feet of the river is regulated by the Metropolitan River Protection Act, which allows no impervious surfaces within 150 feet of the river. The law was passed to protect Atlanta’s drinking water supply. The result is no boardwalks, restaurants, or band shell next to the river. That’s the tradeoff we make for clean water.

By: kunkthis

kunkthis — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:23:36 +0000

Maybe we should all just sit next to bottles of Disani water and pretend?

By: G-Money

G-Money — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:57:01 +0000

The Hooch by my house (Marietta Blvd) is disgusting. It has “settle solids” (sewage) plants for Atlanta and Cobb county, an asphalt reclamation site in Cobb and a coal burning Georgia Power plant. Those aren’t going anywhere. PATH built a trail by the river, but it was closed after 9/11.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:20:55 +0000

Robert,
I like your ideas, but the problem is that in the places where the river is closest to the city it is a smelly, polluted mess. Everything downriver from the Sewage Plant on Atlanta Road is disgusting. Upriver from that is a lot of entrenched residential that will take BIG money to uproot.

But, if it could be pulled off - go for it.