River Protection Group Files Notice Of CWA Suit Settlement With Atlanta

( December 4, 2025, 9:16 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — A nonprofit dedicated to protecting the Chattahoochee River is finalizing a consent decree with the city of Atlanta that will settle a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Georgia over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) from discharges of pollutants from one of the city’s wastewater treatment plants through implementation of a series of remediation actions, including roughly $55 million in improvements to the wastewater disposal system....