Reengineering Wet Ponds and Streams for Water Quality Improvement in Gwinnett County, Georgia- A Value Based Approach

Proceedings of the 2007 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 27-29, 2007, Athens, Georgia.This paper provides an overview of Gwinnett County’s ongoing watershed protection program and describes the implementation of several proposed projects whose goal is to improve water quality and aquatic habitat. These projects include two wet detention ponds, Lakes Marie and Wethersfield, and a stream restoration project located on a tributary of Bromolow Creek. A summary of each project’s goals, an overview of the design, and a review of the estimated project benefits and costs of each will be presented. The goals of each project are intended to be consistent with Gwinnett’s watershed protection program, which has now gone full circle from planning to implementation.Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThis book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397) or the other conference sponsors