This doesn’t look so great…

Also true along the creek at Johnston Road and over at Northside Drive.

Medlock Park Under Peachtree Creek Flooding

David Kaufman’s excellent book, Peachtree Creek, portrayed one of the metro area’s most important watersheds as the collector of the objects and people that the city wished it could forget.  The result was a book filled with contrasting moments of both deep insight and beautiful despair.  Because it was the place that few visited or ever thought about, it could reveal more about the city in which it flowed than the Coke Museum or Margaret Mitchell House ever could.

However, record amounts have rain have suddenly put this once-forgotten creek back in the headlines.

The creek’s watershed covers much of the northeast metro area inside of I-285.  Up in Buckhead, the AJC reports of major flooding in some homes thanks to the swollen creek.  And a little closer to home, the South Fork of Peachtree Creek continues to flood Medlock Park (recent home of crawfish), just north of Decatur.  Druid Hills Youth Sports Board President James Laubenthal links to some new pics and writes in…

We are trying to get assistance from the County to try and find a fix for the on-going problem.  One of the issues is the ever-increasing vegetation and debris at the Willivee Road bridge over the creek. The debris acts as a strainer and slows down the flow, and the back up begins.

The author of “Peachtree Creek”, Dave Kauffman, will be speaking at Decatur Library on Nov. 7th @ 7:15p.

Kaufman’s book on this long forgotten watershed has become a regional hit with its excellent photography (of an often times not so beautiful creek) and what Amazon calls “a compelling mix of urban travelogue, local history, and call for conservation”.  A must read for local residents.  Put it on hold at the library here.

If you can’t make the talk, check out Creative Loafing’s recent Q&A with the author.

Hattip: InDecatur – Make sure to check out this posting on Peachtree Creek’s role in Decatur’s history