Cleaner Streams Initiative Interactive Mapping

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• If you are a first-time user of GIS, read how to use the mapping system.

In developing the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Implementation Plans for the Ocmulgee River Basin in 2003, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) identified the need to make TMDL project information available in a more intuitive and graphic format. To accomplish this, we have used a groundbreaking online mapping system based on Geographic Information System (GIS)  technology. For the first time, the region's residents are now able to produce maps at any scale showing TMDL stream segments for their communities.

ARC has worked with county and city governments and local water and sewer authorities in the Ocmulgee, Coosa, Chattahoochee and Flint river basins to develop plans for specific stream segments to reduce certain pollutants to meet state water quality standards. On the following interactive mapping Web site we will refer to these stream segments as “ARC TMDL stream segments”.

Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) has developed TMDLs for other pollutants and the plans to address those pollutants. Please contact Mary Gazaway (404.675.1745) with GA EPD's Water Protection Branch, if you have any questions regarding these other types of pollution.

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