Caution Macon        Macon-Bibb County, Georgia

Eisenhower Parkway Extension

	Various Resolutions supporting Muscogee (Creek) efforts to preserve the Ocmulgee Old Fields TCP. They can be found as follows:   Council of the Five Civilized Tribes Resolution 2002-18 dated 10/11/2002 http://www.fivecivilizedtribes.org/pdf/resolution%202002-18.pdf   United South and Eastern Tribes Resolution 2003020 dated 10/31/2002 http://www.usetinc.org/resolutions.cfm?filter=ALL   National Congress of American Indians Resolution SD-02-0018 dated 11/11/02 (Page 3 - Item 19) http://www.ncai.org/ncai/data/resolution/2002Annual/018.pdf     Here are some more URLs of interest:   Federal Highway Administration – New Echota TCP (references Ocmulgee TCP) http://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/strmlng/newsletters/feb05nl.asp   Brockington & Associate's Role in Ocmulgee TCP http://www.brockington.org/services/tribal.html   Georgia Conservancy – Ocmulgee National Heritage Corridor Feasibility Study http://www.gaconservancy.org/SmartGrowth/Ocmulgee_NHC_Study.pdf   Robert Trepp Testimony Before Senate 7/17/02 http://www.senate.gov/~scia/2002hrgs/071702hrg/trepp.PDF   National Parks Conservation Association Testimony Before Senate 8/2/2002 http://www.npca.org/media_center/testimonies/testimony080202.html   Statement of Susan Shown Harjo Before U.S. Senate 6/18/2003 http://www.senate.gov/~scia/2003hrgs/061803hrg/harjo.PDF   National Trust for Historic Preservation - 11 Most Endangered Sites 2003 http://www.nationaltrust.org/11most/list.asp?i=148   Ocmulgee National Monument is still listed as a tentative World Heritage Site. http://itm.bme.hu/unesco/TentativeList/tentativelist.pdf

- -  Macon, Georgia  , USA  - - Click here to see Map of NEWEST Proposed Route  "16-2-80" This page provides quick links to information concerning a proposed new-road project commonly called the Eisenhower Parkway Extension

The Georgia Department of Transportation used to consider this a section of what is commonly referred to as the Fall Line Freeway.   And the DOT "prefered route" has always been drawn through the legislated boundaries of the Ocmulgee National Monument.    Read the newest article  By CHRISTOPHER QUINN   Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer  - April 14, 2002  * * * * * * * * * * Read about  a new "Grassroots" option called "16-2-80" Click here to see Map of NEWEST Proposed Route  "16-2-80" Could this route be accepted by all sides?

Ocmulgee National Monument near Macon put on most-threatened parks list By CHRISTOPHER QUINN Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 3/26/02 ] Plans to run a highway between the Indian mounds of Ocmulgee National Monument caused the National Parks Conservation Association on Monday to call Ocmulgee one of the 10 most-threatened national parks in the nation. Ocmulgee takes its place among more well-known parks with problems, such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its air pollution. Ocmulgee preserves thousand-year-old Indian mounds, village sites and the mysterious Earth Lodge, a circular mound with a room and clay seats inside. The mounds are in two separate sections, and the state Department of Transportation is studying routing the Fall Line Freeway between the sections. The Fall Line Freeway will link Macon to Augusta and Columbus. "We simply can't accept a four-lane highway passing just a stone's throw away from the national monument and straight through a piece of land with nationally significant artifacts, when other routes exist," said Jill Stephens with the park conservation group. The undeveloped private land around the monument in Macon has a federal designation like that of a historic neighborhood because of its archaeological sites and the land's importance to the Muscogee Creek and other Indian nations. Jim David, the superintendent of the monument, said there have been discussions about expanding the park. Common sense would dictate that the undeveloped land between the two sections, where the proposed highway would run, would be the best land to expand the monument, he said. "Having a four-lane highway going through that would make that acquisition far less possible," David said. Advocates for the route, including local politicians and businessmen, say it is the only one that gives Macon traffic relief and brings needed development. Other proposed routes skirted the city. The state DOT listed the route as a preferred alternative in earlier studies, which were rejected by the Federal Highway Administration. The FHWA said it looked like the state was writing its studies to justify the route, rather than to find the best route. Vicki Gavalas, a spokeswoman for the state DOT, said the state did not write studies to justify the route. The new studies should be finished late this year. Other national parks on the list: Great Smoky Mountains, Everglades/Big Cypress National Preserve, Federal Hall National Monument in New York, Glacier National Park, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Mojave National Preserve, Valley Forge National Historical Park, Yellowstone and Big Bend. http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0302/0326ocmulgee.html

The DOT "prefered route" has always been through the legislated boundaries of the Ocmulgee National Monument. Proponents of this "Prefered Route" insist that Columbus-Macon-Agusta can ONLY be connected for commercial traffic through the Eisenhower Parkway Extension.   But, GA 96 has always been considered the superior East-West route by truckers in the Midstate.

 Links:

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• Time Line  
•  FAQs and Facts Sheet Page
• 1999 Macon Telegraph articles about the Flood of '94
• Macon Telegraph in March 2002 - Editors Opinion - and Rebuttal
• the Intimidation and Resignation of Georgia's State Historic Preservation Officer
• Ga DOT is withholding reasonable access to public records
• RDC Study is deeply flawed
• Macon Levee needs to be Split
• Rebuttal of a lobbyist's attack on the Ocmulgee "Flats" !
• Two Routes Can Save the Freeway - alternative routing
• Sacred Lands - as viewed by a Macon Congregation
• Jack Sammons - Analysis
• John Kraus - Letters
• Flooding Effects - and Maps - Why not build in swamps?

• Map above is available with more information from FEMA website Map below adds the complexities of Levy and berm under i-16

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• Macon's Levee - problems in 1994  and 1997-8
• "Levee Scam"
• Great map of Levee by Macon Telegraph
• image - the Macon Levee "protects 3000 acres"
• image - size of unfettered floodplain  superimposed with EPE proposal
• image - who owns the floodplain?
• graph - height of floods measured at 5th St Bridge before and after Levee and I-16
• Dissection of Eisenhower Extension route
• Macon must do what is Right -Ad by Allegro
• Macon Chamber Letter of Dissinformation
• Attempts to acquire public records from the DOT