Press Releases

DeKalb County Relaunches “Water Matters” Conservation Campaign

DECATUR, Ga.  – DeKalb County water conservation tips will be featured on WALR Kiss 104.1 FM and WSB 750 –AM 95.5 Talk Radio. The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management is relaunching…

No Residential Sanitation Collection Service on Labor Day

DECATUR, Ga. – DeKalb County’s Sanitation Division will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 4. 

Due to the holiday, garbage, recyclable materials and yard trimmings…

DeKalb Selected for Nextdoor Federal Demonstration

DECATUR, Ga. – DeKalb County Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) was recently selected by Nextdoor, the private social network for neighborhoods, to demonstrate best practices to Federal Emergency…

DeKalb County Mobile Career Center September Schedule

DECATUR, Ga. – WorkSource DeKalb announces its Mobile Career Center schedule for September. The center will be stationed at locations throughout DeKalb County to help put DeKalb County citizens back…

Tracy Hutchinson Appointed DeKalb Sanitation Division Director

DECATUR, Ga. – DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has appointed Tracy Hutchinson director of the Sanitation Division. Hutchinson is the first female director to lead Sanitation, the largest division…

DeKalb Offers Citizens Tips for Hurricane Harvey Relief

DECATUR, Ga. – The damage from Hurricane Harvey has DeKalb citizens in disbelief, many who have asked DeKalb Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) officials how to help. At the request of DEMA’s…

Permanent Repairs Planned at Sewer Spill Site

DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County workers are planning permanent repairs at the site of a major spill at Snapfinger Creek in the unincorporated Lithonia area.

Workers contained the 6.4-million-gallon…

No Residential Sanitation Collection Service on Labor Day

DECATUR, Ga. – DeKalb County’s Sanitation Division will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 4. 

Due to the holiday, garbage, recyclable materials and yard trimmings…

Lithonia Area Sewer Spill Contained

DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County workers and emergency contractor crews contained a major sewer spill Saturday at Snapfinger Creek in the unincorporated Lithonia area.

Crews repaired a concrete junction…

Rockbridge Road Water Project Meeting Sept. 7

DECATUR, Ga. – The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management (DWM) will host an informational community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. to discuss a project to replace aging…