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Bellwood Quarry to become Westside Reservoir Park
By Clare S. Richie
Westside Reservoir Park
A disused granite quarry on the westside – world famous for its sheer walls and blue-tinted water as seen in “The Walking Dead,” “The Hunger Games” and “Stranger Things” – is on its way to becoming a critical amenity for Atlanta.
The city is converting the former Bellwood Quarry, located between Bankhead and West Midtown, into a 2.4 billion gallon reservoir. That conversion requires the drilling of a five-mile tunnel that will connect the reservoir with the Hemphill and Chattahoochee Water Treatment Plants, and the Chattahoochee River Intake. The area surrounding the reservoir will be developed into the city’s largest park and will connect to the Atlanta BeltLine.
“Our water supply is essential to our city’s good health – both our physical health and our economic health,” said Mayor Kasim Reed, noting that the tunnel drilling will be the largest conversion of a quarry to a raw water supply in the U.S.
“One day in Atlanta without water would cost $100 million” in economic impact on the City of Atlanta,” Reed said. “That’s why the city is proactively investing $300 million in one of the nation’s largest water supply projects to ensure its residents, businesses, and visitors have clean, safe drinking water.”
The Chattahoochee is one of the smallest river systems in the country to provide water supply to a major metropolitan city, according to the nonprofit environmental group Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. As the city continues to grow and face periodic droughts, the reservoir will contain needed reserves filled by the river during….Read more in Intown Newspaper…
It’s goals included: “developing the park into a citywide destination with active and passive recreation; connecting to Grove Park and an expanded Maddox Park; maximizing the potential of the land with minimal intervention; enhancing the inherent natural and scenic resources and making them physically and/or visually accessible to public; and ensuring public safety.
The tunnel-boring machine nicknamed Driller Mike.
To move forward with planning the park, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs will engage with key stakeholders including the Department of Watershed Management, the Department of Planning and Community Development through the Atlanta City Studio, the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. and community leaders.
“We hope the park will feature hiking and biking trails, baseball fields, open meadows and an amphitheater,” Gaither shared.
“Reinvention of this quarry as a reservoir and as a surrounding park is one of the most creative land reclamation projects going on in the city of Atlanta and certainly in the southeast,” Reed said…..Read more in Intown Newspaper
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Rap star Killer Mike with the tunnel-boring machine named in his honor
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