Yesterday, I mentioned that even though none of the daily rain events amounted to more than 10-year storm event, the cumulative effect of a week’s worth of storms manifested itself as a 100-year storm on Monday and into Tuesday.
Turns out that the US Geological Survey is actually saying that in many cases, this was a [...]
Gwinnett County filed a notice of appeal on a federal ruling earlier this year that would no longer allow most of metro-Atlanta use Lake Lanier for its drinking water, despite the fact that it is its primary potable water reservoir and has been for decades.
That this is even an issue, despite the fact that the [...]
The Atlanta Business Chronicle had a good summary of the housing news around the metro area today. Below is a small portion of a lengthy article.
For the 12-month period ending in March, Atlanta saw 8,972 housing starts — ranking No. 5 out of the metro areas tracked by Metrostudy. Houston topped the list with 22,502 [...]
The amount of news on the housing front over the last week or so is staggering. If you’re keeping up with the articles I share, you’re on top of the game. (If you use an RSS reader, use this feed…) However, I wanted to add a little to the mix of articles and organize them [...]
It seems the timing on my first infrastructure post was impeccable. GDOT announced on Thursday that it would seek federal funding for rail. It even cleared up my question, to a degree, on where the missing link from Louisville to Atlanta was. Well, President Obama’s plan has it missing, but apparently the various state DOTs [...]
Metro-Atlanta was not geographically located very well for the now 5.7+ million inhabitants that call it home. First, the only major water source is the Chattahoochee River, a very small river by drainage basin standards, especially where it feeds metro-Atlanta’s primary drinking source – Lake Lanier. The topography is extreme for a large city – [...]
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure [...]
In my previous blog, I had said the next blog would be about Atlanta’s infrastructure. I still plan on doing that blog – in fact, I think infrastructure is the single most important long term investment for the future of Atlanta (and the United States). I was saddened to see how few dollars (around 5%) [...]
