Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River

By: Sally Sierer Bethea

Meeting Date: March 5, 2025 6:30 PM

Meeting Location: Olmstead Linear Park Alliance Offices

We will discuss the memoir of an environmentalist that also tells us much about what makes advocacy and reform effective. It’s how a small group, working in the right ways, forced a city to take on a problem its leaders absolutely did not want to deal with, the polluting of a river. The city and river? Atlanta and the Chattahoochee.

Sally Bethea was the founding director of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.

We’ll look for lessons urbanists should take from Bethea’s decades-long efforts to stop a city’s fouling of a river and discuss how these lessons could be used in other reform efforts.

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