Boiling water, dog parks… Why not save a nice old tree?
Editor’s Notes John F. Schaffner Until the past six months or so, I had lived in Roswell for about 25 years and I don’t ever recall having to boil water for personal use—drinking, brushing my teeth, etc.—while I lived in Roswell. Over the weekend of Oct. 13-14, the apartment complex, where I am temporarily living, on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road in Sandy Springs, and a large portion of northeast Sandy Springs was under a boil water advisory because of yet another rupture of a main water line that is the responsibility of the city of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management. How many times has that happened this year in Sandy Springs? Three? Four? Six? Unfortunately, I didn’t realize we were under a boil water advisory until Sunday afternoon, at least 24 hours after it was issued. So, I guess I am lucky I am still here and not sick in a hospital. As for learning when the advisory was lifted on Monday morning, I found out that information first on the website of the city of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management. The Sandy Springs city website didn’t have the message until later….I suppose when someone came to work on their regular Monday work schedule. Why not two dog parks? I recently was shopping at Trader Joe’s and started talking to one of the women who works there. When she found out...
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