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East Point outlines stormwater work, warns of federal fines and $30M repair need
Summary
Water and Sewer Director Melissa Echeverria told the City Council the stormwater division meets federal mandates but faces mounting capital needs after repeated flood damage; staff outlined an appeals process for private-property sinkholes and said the utility has $7.4M in reserves versus roughly $30M in needed repairs.
Melissa Echeverria, East Point’s water and sewer director, gave City Council a wide-ranging briefing on the city’s stormwater management program and its legal and fiscal limits. She told council the division maintains routine street sweeping, CCTV inspection, creek maintenance and emergency repairs to meet federal Clean Water Act and Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) requirements.
Echeverria said the city has kept its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MS4) permit compliance record since 2017 and FEMA Community Rating System (CRS) standing since 2013, but that failure to meet the MS4 permit or the city’s Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan could expose East Point to enforcement fines. “In the event that the city does not maintain the MS4 permit … we could be fined up to $50,000 per day or $100,000 per day per violation,” Echeverria said.
Echeverria showed photos and descriptions of multiple emergency sinkhole and…
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