Fulton Wants To Expand, Upgrade Big Creek Water Facility

ROSWELL, GA — The Fulton County Department of Public Works will hold a public meeting next week to gather feedback and provide information on the planned upgrade and expansion of the Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Roswell.

The input meeting will be held 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at the Chattahoochee Nature Center at 9135 Willeo Road in Roswell.

The department recently awarded the design-build contract for the project, which is part of the county’s Capital Improvement Program. At the meeting, department officials will provide an overview of the scope, timeline and benefits of the expansion and hear community input.

The Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility serves the largest service area, and receives the
largest amount of wastewater flow of all the reclamation facilities in the county's northern service area
outside the city of Atlanta. According to the county's website, the service area is approximately 70 square miles and includes Roswell, Alpharetta, portions of Milton and areas of Cobb and DeKalb counties.

The facility was originally constructed at its current location in 1969 with a treatment capacity of 0.75 millions of gallons per day. Several upgrades and expansions have been completed on the facility to its current permitted treatment capacity of 24 MGD. The project will upgrade and expand the facility from 24 to 38 million gallons per day to meet the projected wastewater treatment demands from future growth and eliminate odors from the facility. The project is expected to be Fulton County’s largest public works project in the next 50 years.

For more information about the meeting and/or project, contact David Clark at 404-612-2804 or david.clark@fultoncountyga.gov or Brandon Ward at 404-612-7467 or brandon.ward@fultoncountyga.gov.

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