Water records
58 records for the City of Atlanta and DeKalb County on the Water map (lost lakes, buried creeks and dams), each with its own page and its sources.
The 87 lake histories are on their own pages. These are the other water records.
Buried stream 3
Dam 13
- Abbot LakeInventory date 1946Dam inventory figures only
- Alexanders Lake EastInventory date 1956Dam inventory figures only
- Burns LakeInventory date 1965Dam inventory figures only
- Davidson Mineral PropertiesInventory date 1960Dam inventory figures only
- Kings LakeInventory date 1960Dam inventory figures only
- Lake ForrestDam inventory figures only
- Lake WindsorInventory date 1951Dam inventory figures only
- Madison Vinings Ridge LakeDam inventory figures only
- Mcdonough Ash Pond # 4Inventory date 1974Dam inventory figures only
- Robinson LakeDam inventory figures only
- Scott Candler Reservoir #3Dam inventory figures only
- Smokerise East LakeInventory date 1970Dam inventory figures only
- Upper Cowart LakeDam inventory figures only
Divide 3
Flood 4
Ford or bridge 4
Mill 6
- Durand's Mill (Williams Mill)1860s and later1 source
- Houston's Mill (South Fork Peachtree Creek)1876-19832 sources
- Howell's Mills (Peachtree Creek)1852-18792 sources
- Jones Mill / Walker's Mill (Clear Creek)mid-1800s2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- White's Mill19th century to the mid-1900s2 sourcesThinly sourced
- William Johnston's mill (North Fork Peachtree Creek)antebellum2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Pollution & cleanup 5
- Combined sewers and the 1998-99 consent decrees1995 lawsuit; decrees 1998 and 1999; final deadline July 1, 20274 sources
- Custer Avenue CSO facility and East Area tunnelfacility mid-1980s; tunnel 20083 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Intrenchment Creek treatment plant (Key Road)1910 to the mid-2020s5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Snapfinger wastewater plant and DeKalb's sewer settlement1961; settlement December 20105 sources
- West Area CSO storage tunnelcompleted 20082 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Spring 5
- Angier Springs19th century2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Cascade Springsresort about 1900; bottled into the 1950s; city preserve from the 1970s4 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Ponce de Leon Springsknown by the early 1800s; resort from the 1870s3 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Proctor Creek's headwater springspresent day3 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Walton Spring19th century3 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Stream 10
- Chattahoochee Rivergauge records from 18864 sources
- Green Bone Creek18641 source
- Intrenchment Creek19th century to present5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Nancy Creeknamed by the 1830s5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Peachtree Creekgauged since 19125 sources
- Proctor Creek19th century to present5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Snapfinger Creeknamed by the 1800s5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- South Riversewer from the 1880s; 'extremely polluted' 19915 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Utoy Creek1830s-1864 mills; battle 18645 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Yellow Rivergauged since 20024 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Waterworks 5
- Atlanta's first waterworks (Poole's Creek, Lakewood)1875-18934 sources
- Chattahoochee River pumping station (1893)1893; still in use3 sources
- Decatur Waterworks (Mason Mill)1906-07 to the 1940s; dams dynamited about 19655 sources
- Five Points artesian well1884-18933 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Hemphill Avenue water works (1893)1892-93; still in use4 sources