Months after the city of Atlanta was cited for releasing poorly treated wastewater into the Chattahoochee River , a recent inspection found the embattled facility at the heart of its pollution problems still faces a bevy of issues, from broken filtration screens to tanks clogged with algae and floating debris.
The inspection of the R.M. Clayton Water Reclamation Center was conducted by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division staff on Aug. 8, according to a report chronicling the visit that was shared with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Situated on the Chattahoochee River in northwest Atlanta, R.M. Clayton is Atlanta’s biggest sewage treatment plant and one of the largest in the Southeast. The facility is permitted to release as much as 100 million gallons of wastewater each day into the river, but it has been at the center of the city’s most recent sewage treatment problems, which burst into public view earlier this year.
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