Georgia Case Study—the Fog Log
Georgia is the Fog Log entry point—Risen Water’s home state, the national leader in grease-caused sewer overflows, and a place where utilities are under legal orders to stop them.
The numbers
- 270 Fats, Oils & Grease (FOG)-caused sewer overflows across 33 utilities (last year), every one dry-weather—grease, not storm
- 12 resolved target utilities, ranked below
- the entry point: Risen Water’s HQ + the nation’s #1 state for grease overflows
Why Georgia, right now
- #1 in the nation for FOG sewer overflows: Aging metro-Atlanta collection systems push grease-blocked overflows into creeks and the Chattahoochee.
- It’s all on the record: Unlike Florida, Georgia reports every sanitary sewer overflow to EPA, each one public, dated, and attributable. The target list builds itself.
- Federal consent decrees: Several utilities (including Atlanta and DeKalb County) operate under court orders to cut overflows: forced, funded, deadline-driven spending.
The Fog Log keeps FOG emulsified in the wet well so it can’t cap and clog the lift station—fewer overflows, far cheaper than a collection-system retrofit.
Target utilities by FOG overflows
| Utility | City | FOG overflows | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb County Watershed Mgmt | Decatur | 64 | 2026-05-05 |
| Atlanta (City of) | Atlanta | 25 | 2026-05-10 |
| Cobb County Water System | Smyrna | 22 | 2026-05-17 |
| Macon Water Authority—Rocky Creek | Macon | 21 | 2026-05-01 |
| Augusta (City of) | Augusta | 20 | 2026-04-20 |
| Clayton County Water Authority | Jonesboro | 20 | 2026-05-18 |
| Savannah (City of) | Savannah | 16 | 2026-05-07 |
| Fulton County Public Works | Roswell | 12 | 2026-04-17 |
| Savannah President St. Reuse | Savannah | 11 | 2026-04-11 |
| Gwinnett County | Buford | 11 | 2026-04-03 |
| Macon Water Authority—Lower Poplar | Macon | 9 | 2026-04-22 |
| Athens-Clarke County | Athens | 5 | 2026-04-01 |