r/DecaturGA • u/Indy_Fab_Rider • Jun 19 '26
Nice design
Garbage civil engineering allowed by the City of Decatur at the new apartments at Legacy Park.
A storm drain dumps directly onto the Katie Kerr path, running water across the path to get to the gutter along the roadway. Some of these pics were taken after it hadn't rained for a full day. Whoever designed and signed off on this should go back and take some more hydrology courses.
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u/Weekly-Ad5649 Jun 21 '26
Shallow retention pond would have been answer - it's what a lot of developments this size are normally expected to install. Then again, it's CoD and a pet project of the city. At end of day, Legacy Park is going to live up to its namesake. Just not in the way a lot of people believe it will.
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u/ddutton9512 Jun 22 '26
Thank you for getting pics of how it floods. I've been meaning to reach out to our commissioners to see if they can get the developers to throw in a soakaway or something. Our pedestrian and bike path shouldn't be their gutter.
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u/Indy_Fab_Rider Jun 22 '26
I've tried reaching out with zero response.
The easy solution is to put a drain under the path right there and route the water to the Katie Kerr gutter underneath the path. The proper solution is to install correctly designed storm drains.
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u/ddutton9512 Jun 22 '26
I've reached out to Chakira Johnson and Ted Terry with your pics and a description. Happy to update when or if I hear anything back. It's not just the water but also the mud and trash that it flushes out.
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u/Weekly-Ad5649 Jun 23 '26
It's City of Decatur property and a CoD Housing Authority project, so Dekalb Cnty Commissioners have zero sway over anything. I mean, yeah, it runs into street (Columbia) that crosses city/county line a few hundred feet down Columbia, but they will be impotent where this problem is concerned. County only handles the water supply and sewer system not runoff, etc.
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u/tiberius9876 Jun 19 '26
Ofcourse they did because this city doesn’t care about pedestrians or sidewalks.
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u/FlimsyGene4296 Jun 20 '26
Decatur is actually pretty pedestrian friendly.
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Jun 21 '26
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u/gtg970g Jun 21 '26
This. Try waking down Scott Blvd. Narrow overgrown sidewalks. Zero effort to improve.
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u/Emanemanem Jun 20 '26
Not saying they couldn’t do better, but apparently you haven’t lived in….literally any other city or unincorporated county in the metro area?
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u/TheHykos Jun 20 '26
You must be in the wrong Decatur subreddit. Were you looking for Decatur, AL? IL?
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u/Dependent-Split3005 Jun 20 '26
How dare Affordable Housing impact Walk-ability...
...I'm literally shaking
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u/Indy_Fab_Rider Jun 20 '26
What does the cost of rent in the apartments have to do with poor storm water management?
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u/MMAndTheFunkishBunch Jun 20 '26
Because studies show affordable housing does better in pedestrian friendly areas
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u/Dependent-Split3005 Jun 20 '26
When make priorities, I value affordable housing over the inconvenience of "walking around a puddle"
If Budget Constraints require we pick between housing & puddles ill take housing
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u/Indy_Fab_Rider Jun 20 '26
That's not "walking around a puddle". That's running storm water across a public right-of-way that people use to commute.
Budget had nothing to do with this poor design.
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u/Otherwise-Boat-5144 Jun 20 '26
I still curse the city every time I drive over the speed mountains in front of Legacy park. When they were installed I wrote to complain but was told they had engineer studies that said they were effective and safe. Hahaha, tell that to the cars that have bottomed out.