A proposal for a new stormwater utility fee will be presented Saturday 3/18 at 11:00AM You can watch via Zoom Meeting

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Cobb County has spent the funds set aside for grants to those who had damage related to stormwater on other things. There is no money available now! 

Despite the efforts of the community to work with Cobb County to find solutions we are left with the hard fact that Cobb County did not have an effective plan to manage stormwater infrastructure and now that much of it had decayed and failing , Cobb County's solution is to dump the responsibility for repairing shared community assets on the individual homeowners. This decision by Cobb County is pushing some homeowners to the brink of losing their homes or financial ruin. The county is hiding behind lack of records or making up fairy tales to shirk responsibility.

We are currently working, in the short term, to get help for those that had damage and to address these problems in the long term.

WHO WE ARE:

We are a group of Cobb County and Marietta City residents working to being relief to those impacted by the september 7 floods. We are also advocating for long solutions so it does not happen again. Right now some of our neighbors are facing losing their homes and some are being forced by Cobb County to make repairs to storm water infrastructure that runs though their property because nature decided the path over thousands of years. These are large shared community infrastructure that drains large commercial,  public, and other neighborhoods. Because Cobb discarded records before 1986, Cobb County is taking the position that since they don't have a record these large assets must be homeowners responsibility unless the homeowner can find a record to prove themselves innocent. This storm caused widespread failures or stormwater infrastructure  past their design life and stressed by ever increasing runoff for development. In fact, a study of the Sope Creek Basin shows an increase in runoff that tracks development in Cobb / Marietta. 

Why should you care? 

If you were impacted by the flooding you will likely get no where on your own with Cobb County unless you band together with others in the community to advocate for aid and change.  Because as development in Cobb Increases more and more homes are being reclassified into a flood plain and that one day could be you. Because members of our community are in crisis and Cobb County's inadequate response this time happen to you in a future crisis unless changes are made. Because you could also be exposed to a ticking time bomb that will fail in the future and flood you too just like many of your neighbors.

How Can you get involved?

.!,  Fill out your contact information below so you can get updates

2. provide your best estimate for damages in dollars so we can track the damage. No one else is tracking the dollar amount.  

3. Send you flood damage story to CobbFlood@gmail.com  Read others stories to understand how this has impacted the community. These stories are crucial in the drive to secure aid.

Articles - Articles in the media on Flooding

                                             If you have not made a report to Cobb County, You should Report Your UNINSURED storm damage to Cobb County at their official link.  https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/df351313bcb549ccac57f15cfc4a6808?portalUrl=https%3A%2F%2FCobbCountyGA.maps.arcgis.com&fbclid=IwAR0jbwDfElMtmjOEztbhR7GKWksSdvw5fUP_8BfdkFA8b1Smn27AQde4L2s  

Be sure to report also to us above as Cobb County isn't keeping numbers like we are.