| Stream Clean-Up 2012 - Thursday, April 19, 2012 Mother Nature provided clear skies and plenty of sunshine for 112 volunteers on Saturday, April 14 as they joined staff from the City of Griffin Stormwater Division to pull trash and debris from neighborhood streams. 1.2 tons of trash were removed from Shoal Creek, Cabin Creek, and the headwaters of Potato Creek. Items removed include tires, discarded toys, construction debris, and a multitude of plastic bottles.
City of Griffin Stormwater would like to thank the following groups for their participation: Boy Scout Troop 1, Boy Scout Troop 2, Boy Scout Troop 11, Cub Scout Pack 114, Girl Scout Troop 482, Girl Scout Troup 11327, Girl Scout Troop 11200, Girl Scout Troop 10103, Girl Scout Troop 10311, Emerging Young Leaders/Alpha Kappa Alpha, Venture Crew 37, Spalding High Interact, Eagles Way Church, and Spalding County 4H.
A big thanks goes out to Angus Best and Bruster’s for feeding the volunteers and providing ice cream. After their hard work, the volunteers were rewarded with a raffle of prizes from 6th Street Pier, American Pie, Bruster’s, El Charro, Griffin Ace Hardware, Griffin City Golf Course, Griffin Stadium Cinemas, Griffith’s , Home Depot, little nicci’s, Longhorn Steakhouse, Megamaze, Slices, and Talladega Machinery.
  
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| Storm water Quality Management - Wednesday, February 29, 2012It is the policy of the City of Griffin that all stormwater quality management BMPs and all stormwater detention facilities be maintained by the property owner. Maintenance agreements are therefore required in all cases where the owner is not the City of Griffin. A maintenance schedule should be part of the BMP facility plan. A maintenance agreement that specifies the frequency of maintenance and alerts the City of such maintenance activities is required. The City will maintain an inventory of privately maintained BMP facilities, inspections and performance of required maintenance. The City requires at a minimum a yearly inspection report on privately maintained BMP facilities. The City requires stormwater management easements around all BMP stormwater management facilities.
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| Dog Waste Stations - Thursday, November 17, 2011Dog Waste Stations
 The tree lined streets of Griffin make an excellent place to walk your family dog and the City of Griffin encourages you to use our public sidewalks for that purpose. Although, if you choose to walk your dog along public streets, we require that you bring a bag with you so that you can clean up after your pet and properly dispose of the waste with your normal household garbage. The City of Griffin recently amended the Animals Chapter of the City ordinances to include cleaning up after your pet while not on your own property. It is the responsibility of any person that is in control of a dog, either on a leash or by voice command, to immediately remove any excrement deposited by their dog on public rights-of-way (streets, sidewalks or the land between the edge of the street and sidewalk), on any public property, such as a municipal park, and from private property not belonging to the keeper of the dog. Failure to clean up after your pet whenever you are not on your own private property violates this ordinance and you can be fined up to $100 for each violation. It is your responsibility to be prepared to clean up after your pet whenever you leave your private property.
The City of Griffin and Three Rivers Regional Commission have recently installed 10 dog waste stations that provide a garbage can and disposable bags so that people walking their dogs can easily pick up after their dog. The dog waste stations are located along Maple Drive and E. College Street as that area was identified as areas with high levels of bacteria from dog waste in our creeks and streams. The bacteria enter our streams by washing off of the ground during rain events. These dog waste stations were paid for with grant funds that covered 60% of the cost of the stations.
Why does the Stormwater Division care if I clean up after my dog? Cabin Creek and sections of Potato Creek are listed by the state of Georgia as being impaired due to fecal coliform. When pet waste is not properly picked up and disposed of, stormwater washes that pollutant into a storm drain and then into a local creek where it can cause problems to not only the animals and insects living in the creek but, everything that comes in contact with the creek. A day’s worth of droppings from a large dog can contain 7.8 billion colonies of fecal coliform bacteria. Diseases carried in dog waste that can be passed to humans include: Campylobacteriosis – a bacterial infection carried by dogs and cats that causes diarrhea in humans; Sallonellosis – most common bacteria infection passed from other animals to humans that cause fever, muscle aches, headache, vomiting and diarrhea; Toxocariasis – roundworms that may cause vision loss, rash, fever or cough.
In addition to the dangers to you and your family, pet waste also contains a large amount of organic matter and nutrients. The organic matter in pet waste will break down naturally in the creek but, as it breaks down, the process removes a large amount of oxygen from the creek water. If the oxygen level in the creek goes lower than what is needed for fish, animals and insects to survive, then a localized fish kill will occur. The nutrients in pet waste may cause un-natural algal blooms in the creek which further reduces the amount of oxygen in the receiving creek and cause additional problems.
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| Stream Clean-Up 2011 - Monday, April 11, 2011The City of Griffin Stormwater Division would like to thank all of the volunteers that made the 2011 Stream Clean-Up a record setting event. We had a total of 203 participants representing: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; Boy Scout Troops 1, 2, and 77; Cub Scout Pack 114; Daisy Girl Scout Troop 10103; Eagle's Way Church Youth Group; Girl Scout Troops 10311, 10379, 10407; Griffin High School JROTC; Rotary Club of Griffin; Spalding County 4-H and the City of Griffin Stormwater and Water & Wastewater Divisions. With all of the volunteers, we cleaned approximately 3.3 miles of creek banks within the Shoal, Cabin and Potato Creek watersheds. All together, we were able to remove 7,480 pounds of garbage, 1,100 pounds of tires and 220 pounds of recyclable metal. The State of Georgia has 70,150 miles of streams and rivers and in 2010, 24,617 volunteers across Georgia picked up 1,071,812 pounds of garbage over 2,149 miles of streams.
Please plan on attending next year's Stream Clean-Up which will be held on Saturday, March 24, 2012 with a rain date of Saturday, April 14th.
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| Delaware Sand Filters - Wednesday, September 01, 2010The 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 - Sunday, August 01, 2010The 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 - Saturday, July 17, 2010The 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.
Stormwater Runoff
Only Rain In The Drain - Adults Version
Only Rain In The Drain - Kids Version |
| Water Conservations Tips by Walter Reeves - Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| Volunteers Needed Watershed Advisory Council - Wednesday, February 17, 2010People that are interested in participating contact the Stormwater Department at 770-229-6424. |
| Griffin Storm Drain Marking Program - Sunday, January 17, 2010Program 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
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