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Central Georgia Erosion & Sedimentation Control and Stormwater Workshop
The City of Griffin and Fayette County will be hosting the event this year. The event will take place on two days, October 19 and 20, 2010.
To learn more about it click here: E&S - Stormwater Workshop
 
 

City of Griffin 2010 Stream Clean-up Project
The City of Griffin Stormwater Division hosted our annual Stream Clean-Up on Saturday, March 27th. The 2010 Stream Clean-Up was our most successful event yet. We had a total of 136 volunteers representing: Girl Scout Troops 379 and 407; Girl Scout Daisy Troop 10103; Boy Scout Troops 2, 11 and 77; Cub Scout Pack 114; Eagle’s Way Church Youth Group; Rotary Club of Griffin; Griffin-Spalding County School System Interact Club; Spalding County 4-H; Spalding County and the City of Griffin Stormwater and Water & Wastewater Divisions. By the end of the day, the volunteers had cleaned approximately 2.3 miles of creek banks within the Shoal, Cabin and Potato Creek watersheds. All together, we were able to remove 4,100 pounds of garbage, 400 pounds of tires and 380 pounds of recyclable metal. The State of Georgia has 70,150 miles of streams and rivers and in 2009, 25,918 volunteers across Georgia picked up 952,000 pounds of garbage over 2,154 miles of streams.

Please mark your calendars for the event next year which will be held on Saturday, March 26th with a rain date of Saturday, April 9th.

View Pictures From Event | Download Set of Originals

 
 
Erosion & Sediment Day 2009
The annual City of Griffin Erosion and Sedimentation Day (E&S Day) took place on October 20th with activities taking place at Griffin Technical College and the City of Griffin Test Site. This annual event allows local municipalities, engineers, design professionals and State and Federal Agencies to come together and learn about recent changes in erosion and sedimentation laws and to view new products to help control erosion from construction sites. This year 180 participants attended the event representing 33 private firms, 26 local municipalities, six State agencies, two Federal agencies and 17 different erosion and sedimentation and stormwater vendors.

In the morning, the event started off with presentations by: Michael Mitchell with EPA Region 4 covering the proposed 10 NTU construction effluent limitation; Ben Ruzowicz with GSWCC presented on the new construction plan review checklists; Michael Breedlove with Breedlove Land Planning discussed the steps to have an alternative BMP accepted on an ES&PC plan; and Maryann Gerber with EPA Region 4 focused her presentation on green infrastructure technologies that work in the Piedmont region. After the presentations the attendees visited the Test Site where vendors installed 12 new erosion control and stormwater products to demonstrate.
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Environmental Hotline
The City of Griffin Stormwater Department has recently set up an Environmental Hotline so the citizens of Griffin will be able to call and report environmental issues. The Hotline should be used to report illegal dumping of materials; watering violations; blowing of grass clippings or leaves into a street, a storm drain, a creek or other similar concerns. The Hotline is a 24 hour a day recording system giving callers the opportunity to stay anonymous or leave their name and telephone number if they wish to be contacted about their reported problem. The City of Griffin would like to ask for the help of all of our citizens in protecting our environment. To report environmental issues please call 770-229-6625 or visit the Stormwater Department's Reporting Problems page at: Reporting Problems
 
 
Delaware Sand Filters
The City of Grifin has installed four modified Delaware Sand Filters to treat stormwater runoff. A modified Delaware Sand Filter removes pollutants from stormwater runoff by filtering the runoff through a layer of sand or a combination of small stones and sand.
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Green Roof
The City of Griffin Stormwater Department Operations Building was in need of a new roof. Instead of replacing the roof with a traditional roof, the City replaced it with a vegetative green roof. The main advantage of a green roof is the reduction of the volume of stormwater running off of a roof.
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Videos Online
The City of Griffin Stormwater Department has produced 3 videos documenting stormwater runoff and the effects of pollutants in our stormwater system. These videos can be downloaded by using the links below. You will need to have high speed access due to the large file sizes. If you would like a hard copy of the video in MPG or DVD format please contact the Stormwater Department to make arrangements.

Right click on one of the links below and choose "Save Target As" to save video to your hard drive for viewing.
Stormwater Runoff - 58 MB
Only Rain In The Drain - Adults Version - 206 MB
Only Rain In The Drain - Kids Version - 153 MB
 
 
Water Conservation Tips By Walter Reeves
Gardening Expert Walter Reeves gives informational tips about hand watering, mulching and rain barrels.
HAND WATERING
  
MULCHING
  
RAIN BARREL
   
 
 
= VOLUNTEERS NEEDED =
The Watershed Advisory Council
People that are interested in participating contact the Stormwater Department at 770-229-6424.
 
 
Griffin Storm Drain Marking Program
Program Focuses on Prevention and
Public Involvement & Education

Partners
Griffin-Spalding County School System
Flynt Middle School
A.Z. Kelsey Middle School
Program Challenge Center
Science Enrichment Center
Towaliga District Scout Troops
City of Griffin Advisory Watershed Council

“Everything that goes down a storm drain
ends up in local streams”

To Learn how you can minimize non-point source pollution, call the City of Griffin Stormwater Division at
(770) 229-6424

Learn More About The Storm Drain Marking Program