MAR. 18 - MAR. 31, 2016 • VOL. 10 — NO. 6
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Getting ready for the big services of Easter week
Left, Dale Adelmann, Ph.D., canon for music at the Cathedral of St. Philip, directs the choir, accompanied by organist David Fishburn, right, during a service on March 13. See story and addi�ional photos on page 19.
COMMUNITY Portman-designed sculpture coming to Loudermilk Park Page 15
“More trains.”
OUT & ABOUT Local beers and local bands
“Make more roadways.” “Gondolas, please.” Three di�fering opinions o�fered by respondents to our new 1Q poll on how best to solve metro Atlanta’s transporta�ion troubles. See Commentary PAGE 13
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HEARING LOSS? MEMORY LOSS? THEY HAVE THE SAME SYMPTOMS. Which one is it?
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Residents, officials disagree on how to fix park’s floods, spills BY JOE EARLE AND COLLIN KELLEY joe@reporternewspapers.net collin@atlantaintownpaper.com Some city officials and Buckhead residents are prescribing widely divergent fixes for flooding and sewage overflow problems in Atlanta Memorial Park. City watershed management officials say they plan to spend about $400,000 over the next three to nine months to raise five manholes on a sewer line through the park. They also plan to speed up plans and soon do more than $30 million in other repairs, including repairing and lining a 90inch pipe that was installed in 1910 and now runs beneath the park. “We have accelerated the work on the Peachtree [Creek] watershed,” Watershed Management Commissioner Jo Ann Macrina told members of the City Council’s utilities committee meeting at City Hall on March 9, the day after Mayor Kasim Reed, other city officials and residents of the area toured the Buckhead park to discuss the flooding and sewer leaks. Raising the manholes by about 2 feet should keep water from flowing into the sewer line and causing future sewage leaks like those reported during heavy rains in December, Macrina said. City watershed employees also said they are asking parks officials to consider moving a playground in the park out of the flood plain. “Our work is not done,” Macrina told the committee. “We have reduced the number of spills. The main problem in Memorial Park is spills.” See STORY on page 16