ATLANTA - Mayor Andre Dickens will join DWM Commissioner Mikita Browning to host a ceremony to rename the Water Supply Program at the former Bellwood Quarry in honor of Atlanta’s 58th mayor, Shirley Franklin. Read More...

ATLANTA - The Department of Watershed Management has completed the $320 million Water Supply Program, increasing Atlanta’s reserve water supply from three days to up to 90 days. The former Bellwood Quarry was transformed into a 2.4 billion-gallon water reservoir, and also serves as the ... Read More

DWM — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will join City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management Commissioner Kishia L. Powell to announce a major milestone for the Water Supply Program.   Read More...

Atlanta Loop — Last week Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms along with other city officials broke ground on the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry. At nearly double the size of Piedmont Park, Bellwood will become Atlanta’s premiere green space when construction is complete.   Read More...

Metro Atlanta CEO — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms joined other City officials to break ground on what will become the largest park in the City of Atlanta, the future Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry.   Read More...

WABE — Construction is now officially underway at what is intended to eventually be Atlanta’s biggest park. City officials gathered Thursday at the future Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry. At a couple hundred acres, it will be larger than Piedmont Park.   Read More...

FOX 5 — Construction on the new Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry is now underway.   Read More...

News 95.5 AM 750 WSB — It’s a lush forest five miles northwest of City Hall and in many ways, it’s a world away from the concrete jungle of downtown Atlanta.   Read More...

What Now Atlanta — Slated to open in 2019, the new green space is 100 acres larger than Midtown's Piedmont Park.   Read More...

ATLANTA (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Killer Mike always wanted to see his name on a street sign, but a tunnel-boring machine will have to suffice for now.   Read More...

The whole ‘name-it-yourself’ public voting system has had something of a chequered history over the past couple of years. Between the publicly named polar research vessel ‘Boaty McBoatface’ and the internet’s majority vote to name a baby gorilla at Philadelphia Zoo ‘Harambe,’ this democratic polling system has mostly been used ... Read More

The Atlanta Watershed Department has narrowed down the list of possible names for it's 400-foot-long rock-digging machine, and it's come down to a rapper, a tribute to Georgia's most famous crop, and "Gone with the Wind."   Read More...

Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management has announced three finalists in its campaign to name a giant tunnel-drilling machine: Driller Mike, Peach Beast and Scarlett.   Read More...

Driller Mike, Peach Beast and Scarlett are the three entries that have garnered the most votes to name Atlanta's new tunnel boring machine.   Read More...

The City of Atlanta has welcomed the arrival of the largest section of a new tunnel boring machine (TBM). Read More...

Atlanta city officials have received the big machine that will bore tunnels to increase the city’s water supply. Now they want to give the 400-foot-long machine its own nickname. Read More...

ATLANTA - Testing underground is underway this week as the city of Atlanta prepares to build a massive tunnel to boost its emergency water supply from 3 days to 30 days. Read More...

What looks like a gargantuan, half-buried oyster shell west of Midtown could be a sparkling, life-sustaining water source for Atlanta within the next two and 1/2 years. Atlanta Department of Watershed Management officials tell 11Alive that testing has begun this week for a tunneling project that will transform the Beltline-connected Bellwood ... Read More

Channel 2's Katie Walls got an exclusive tour of the quarry. Read More...