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5/22/2026
WT Staff
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May 22, 2026 421 pm EDT
Proposed Data Center at Forest Park, Clayton County - Developer seeks Water Quality Certification - 30 day public input period is underway, closing June 4
GA Forest Park Land, LLC is seeking a Section 401 Water Quality Certification for aquatic resource impacts
associated with the construction of an approximately 2-million square foot (sf) data center facility, along with an adjacent substation.
The approximately 153-acre project site is located east of Ryan Road and South of Slate Road,
within the redeveloped Fort Gillem Industrial Park in Forest Park, Georgia (see the front page map, the location 33.629299, -84.332005 is marked in blue for water quality event).
According to the Request for 401 WQC, the project proposes the construction of a single two-level data center building, which will house seven data halls (fourteen total) per level totaling approximately 850,000 square feet of floor area and one adjacent substation, on a 55.85-acre parcel adjacent to the existing Phase 1 data center within the redeveloped Fort Gillem Industrial Park in Forest Park, Georgia.
The project, as currently proposed, requires a USACE Section 404 permit. Construction of the overall development
would be completed in two phases: 1) Phase 1, authorized on March 7, 2025, will include the permanent fill of 144
linear feet of perennial stream for the construction of two culverted crossings; 2) Phase II, as currently proposed, would include additional permanent impacts to 636 linear feet of intermittent stream and 5.79 acres of wetland. In order to offset the impacts associated with Phase I of the development, the permittee purchased the required 1,728 legacy stream credits from the Little Sandy Creek 2 Mitigation Bank on January 4, 2025.
For Phase II of the development, the applicant is proposing the purchase of 2,289.40 legacy stream credits (or 318 non-perennial (2018) stream credits), and 34.8 legacy wetland credits (or 4.28 depressional/flat (2018) wetland credits and 0.07 slope (2018) wetland credits.
Permit Applicant: Dominic Reinecker
GA Forest Park Land, LLC
1776 Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
This notice is issued to inform the public that a request has been received for water quality certification (WQC) in accordance with Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The public is invited to comment during this 30-day period on the proposed activity.
Since the request is specific to the WQC, only comments pertaining to water quality are considered under the certification review process.
Comments may be submitted via e-mail to: EPD.WQC@dnr.ga.gov
Comments may also be provided in writing to:
Program Manager, Wetlands Unit
Suite 1052 East - 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. SE
Atlanta, GA 30334
Include the words "Water Quality Certification Comment"and the Control Number SAS-2025-00047 in the e-mail subject line or at the top of the first page of written comments to ensure that your comments will be forwarded to the appropriate staff.
For additional information, contact Dewey Richardson at dewey.richardson@dnr.ga.gov.
For more information on water quality, see this recent article from UN University, here.
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