The Friends of Peachtree Hills Park participate in the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream (AAS) program that is part of the Watershed Protection Branch of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. The small stream that runs through our park is monitored by volunteers who have been certified by Georgia Adopt-A-Stream (AAS) in an effort to identify and alert Watershed Management to issues affecting the water quality in our stream. Ron Loines is certified to conduct chemical, bacterial, and visual monitoring and reporting the results on the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream website.

The part of the stream near the parking lot at the Peachtree Hills Avenue entrance, identified as AAS site ID 2033 has been monitored since 2010. In 2023, we began monitoring the creek a little upstream from the Hurst Drive entrance, site ID 7603.

The data that AAS volunteers report are available to the public on the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream website. In the navigation panel above and to the right, select the site, i.e., the one near the Peachtree Hills Ave. entrance or the site near the stairs and waterfall at the Hurst Drive entrance for which you would like to view the results. Also, in the navigation menu is a guide to viewing the data on the AAS web site and some resources to help understand what the data mean.