The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (CRK) filed a lawsuit on Sept. 6 against the City of Atlanta for violating the Clean Water Act. The 34-year-old nonprofit, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), initiated legal proceedings in federal court for its continuing environmental disruptions in the Chattahoochee River.
CRK, a 501(c)(3) non-profit with more than 10,000 members, has spent decades educating, advocating and securing the protection of the Chattahoochee River and its surrounding water bodies.
CRK monitors over 200 locations on the river weekly through four Environmental Protection Division-certified laboratories. In those locations, they collect a pulse of the entire river system and can determine where pollution is and which areas are hot spots for disruption…