News Releases from Region 04
Peachtree City, Ga. Recognized by EPA for Excellence and Innovation in Clean Water Infrastructure
ATLANTA (November 9, 2018) – On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized the Lake Peachtree Dam Spillway project in Peachtree City, Ga. as one of 30 clean water infrastructure projects for excellence and innovation within the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) program. Honored projects include large wastewater infrastructure projects to small decentralized and agriculture projects.
“The Clean Water State Revolving Fund plays an integral role in advancing the President’s infrastructure agenda, providing communities with low-interest loans so that they can modernize aging infrastructure, create good jobs, and better protect public health and the environment,” said EPA Office of Water Assistant Administrator Dave Ross. “The scale and complexity of the 2018 PISCES recognized projects represent the determination, coordination, and creativity our partners put forth to achieve their water quality goals.”
"The Clean Water State Revolving Fund is an extremely important source of funding to ensure communities in the southeast have access to clean water, safe drinking water and the infrastructure necessary to support local needs," said EPA Region 4 Administrator Trey Glenn.
Peachtree City elected to upgrade the spillway to promote the long-term operation of the lake and to mitigate the risk of a dam failure. A piano-key weir (PK weir) was chosen as a replacement for the spillway because the design is capable of both maintaining current flooding levels during higher frequency storm events while also providing the discharge capacity needed to pass the runoff associated with the State-required design storm event. The PK weir will provide aesthetic value for the community and will be the first one built in North America. The CWSRF financed $3.2 million of the spillway project.
The CWSRF is a federal EPA-state partnership that provides communities a permanent, independent source of low-cost financing for a wide range of water quality infrastructure projects. Over the past 31 years, CWSRF programs have provided more than $132 billion in financing for water quality infrastructure.
EPA’s Performance and Innovation in the SRF Creating Environmental Success (PISCES) program celebrates innovation demonstrated by CWSRF programs and assistance recipients.
Learn more about each of the 2018 PISCES-recognized projects at https://www.epa.gov/cwsrf/pisces.