Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management (Snapfinger Creek AWWTF), Oct 27, 2026
Not stated by the source · Georgia Environmental Protection Division (Municipal Sewage Spills Reported to EPD)
Source: Georgia Environmental Protection Division (Municipal Sewage Spills Reported to EPD) via Georgia EPD Municipal Sewage Spills Reported to EPD, record ga0024147-20261027-2097-vineyard-walk-atlanta-ga-30316, published Oct 29, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-05 01:06 UTC · Read the original notice
Current status from this report
End not confirmed on Sugar Creek. Current rule period ends Nov 25, 2026, 11:00 PM EST. This is not a water-quality test.
Why this status: End not confirmed: DirtyWaterWatch rule for reports dated to the day only, after 72 hours of caution from the start of that day.
Why we use this rule: Some state lists give only the day a spill began, with no time of day and no end (Georgia's daily list of municipal sewage spills). These reports show caution for 72 hours from the start of that day, with the day shown as the precision; after that the end is marked unconfirmed until 30 days after the spill began.
A report is not a test of the water. See how we assign statuses.
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1. Reported wastewater outlet
Operator named in the record: Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management (Snapfinger Creek AWWTF) (federal wastewater discharge permit, NPDES, GA0024147). Outlet: “2097 Vineyard Walk Atlanta, Georgia 30316”. Location: 33.72328, -84.31953; location source: geocoded from an address or place name.
Outfall: a pipe or outlet where wastewater enters a water body.
2. Waters named in the notice
The notice names: “Sugar Creek”. DirtyWaterWatch links this report to Sugar Creek, GA. Match basis: the water named in the report.
3. Estimated downstream stretch
No downstream estimate is available for this report.
Map sources: water outlines and launches from OpenBoatLaunch and OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database License); wastewater outlets from EPA and state records; downstream estimates by DirtyWaterWatch using U.S. Geological Survey maps and flow data. Base map: OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles.
When it happened and when it was reported
Event and notice times use Eastern Time (EST or EDT). Retrieval times use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
- Started
- Ended
- not reported
- Detail provided by the source
- Times known to the day only
- Reported to the source
- not given
- Published
- Source last updated
- Last retrieved by DirtyWaterWatch
What and how much
- Type
- Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO): sewage spills from a sewer meant to carry sewage separately from rainwater.
- Status in the record
- Not stated by the source
- Material
- “untreated sewage”
- Volume
- 1,120 gallons (not stated whether estimated or measured)
- Volume as reported
- “1,120 gallons”
Advice from Georgia Environmental Protection Division (Municipal Sewage Spills Reported to EPD)
This report includes no advice. Check current local health notices.
- Advice period
- This report does not state a period. See the rule DirtyWaterWatch applies and its source.
- Basis
- not stated
Status history from this report
- Caution Sugar Creek: Dated to the day only, no end reported: caution from the start of that day, Oct 27, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT to Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT
- End not confirmed Sugar Creek, Oct 30, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT to Nov 25, 2026, 11:00 PM EST (the end is scheduled: a new report can change it)
- No current status shown Sugar Creek: end not confirmed, no map colour, Nov 25, 2026, 11:00 PM EST to Jan 24, 2027, 11:00 PM EST (scheduled: a new report can change it)
Source: DirtyWaterWatch calculations using this report and the published status rules. Updated 2026-11-05 01:25 UTC.
Source and versions
- Source
- Georgia EPD Municipal Sewage Spills Reported to EPD
- Source record number
- ga0024147-20261027-2097-vineyard-walk-atlanta-ga-30316
- Original notice
- Read the original notice
- Earlier version
- None: this is the first record
- Later versions
- None
Record details
| Record identifier | ga-epd-spills:ga0024147-20261027-2097-vineyard-walk-atlanta-ga-30316 |
|---|---|
| Source identifier | ga-epd-spills |
| Source record number | ga0024147-20261027-2097-vineyard-walk-atlanta-ga-30316 |
| Earlier version | Not provided |
| Type | Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) |
| Status in the report | Not stated by the source |
| Sewer operator identifier | ga-dekalb-dwm |
| Sewer operator | Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management (Snapfinger Creek AWWTF) |
| Federal wastewater discharge permit (NPDES) | GA0024147 |
| Outlet number | Not provided |
| Outlet name | 2097 Vineyard Walk Atlanta, Georgia 30316 |
| Water named in the report | Sugar Creek |
| Linked waters | sugar-creek-gresham-park-ga |
| How this report was linked to the water | the water named in the report |
| Latitude | 33.723 |
| Longitude | -84.32 |
| Location source | geocoded from an address or place name |
| Location accuracy, in metres | Not provided |
| Started | Oct 27, 2026 (2026-10-27) |
| Ended | Not provided |
| Detail provided by the source | to the day only |
| Reported to the source | Not provided |
| Published | Oct 29, 2026 (2026-10-29) |
| Source last updated | Nov 4, 2026 (2026-11-04T13:17:01Z) |
| Last retrieved by DirtyWaterWatch | Nov 4, 2026, 8:06 PM EST (2026-11-05T01:06:43Z) |
| Material | untreated sewage |
| Volume, in gallons | 1,120 |
| Volume as reported | 1,120 gallons |
| How volume was determined | not stated whether estimated or measured |
| Authority | Georgia Environmental Protection Division (Municipal Sewage Spills Reported to EPD) |
| Advice | Not provided |
| Advice period, in hours | Not provided |
| Basis of the advice period | Not provided |
| Original notice | https://epd.georgia.gov/document/document/sewagespillsreport20261104/download |
Original source data
{
"row": {
"facility_name": "Dekalb County Department of Watershed Management (Snapfinger Creek AWWTF)",
"begin_date": "2026-10-27",
"county": "DeKalb",
"city": "Atlanta",
"overflow_location": "2097 Vineyard Walk Atlanta, Georgia 30316",
"quantity_gallons": "1120",
"overflow_type": "Raw Sewage",
"permit_number": "GA0024147",
"spill_source": "Collection System",
"cause": "Blockage Other Debris,",
"river_basin": "Ocmulgee",
"waterway_impacted": "Sugar Creek",
"overflow_destination": "Spill Waters of the State"
},
"posting_date": "2026-11-04"
} Staff names, email addresses and phone numbers are removed from source data before it is stored.