Water pressure in DeKalb County was fully restored by Thursday afternoon. Crews even started to replace the damaged pipe from Wednesday morning’s 48-inch water main break. The break was on Buford Highway in Doraville.
As progress is made on restoring infrastructure, the environmental impact could be long lasting.
Jason Ulseth, with the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, assessed the damage to nearby creeks and streams Thursday.
“What we’re seeing is very cloudy, turbid water in the creeks,” he said. “Lots of sediment has deposited along the stream bottom which is very damaging to the aquatic ecosystems and can also exacerbate flooding impacts.”
He said the sediment impacts the amount of storm runoff the bodies of water can absorb.
