SLS Think Tank

SLS Think Tank brings GT faculty, students, and staff together with Community Partners to present and receive feedback on community projects, research opportunities, and collaborations. After presentations, participants share their insights and ideas in an attempt to transform and contribute to the presenters' work.

SLS Think Tank Featured Project: Trash Traps for Proctor and Peachtree Creeks.

Trash in our waterways is a major challenge for large urban areas.  Consumer packaging is a primary category of litter and the main source of water borne floatables.  It is unsightly, expensive to clean up, threatens habitats and degrades quality of life in the region. Removing garbage from residential, institutional and commercial locations in cities is a major logistical and operational task. It is also a critical matter of public health, environmental quality and economic development.

The overarching goal of this project is to improve water quality in the Proctor Creek watershed by ensuring that residents living within these communities have an opportunity to see benefits from revitalization via environmental cleanup activities. Installing a constellation of trash traps in Proctor and Peachtree Creeks will allow for ongoing water flows to transport litter into a catch basin which is then cleaned out periodically such that the material is recovered and the creeks do not flood.  This project hopes to remove up to 90% of the litter in the two creeks.

Presenter and Project Coordinator: West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Director of Environmental Education and Proctor Creek Ambassador, Darryl Haddock

Event Details

Date/Time:

  • Thursday, October 25, 2018
    11:45 am - 12:45 pm

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