City of Atlanta Re-opens Rosel Fann Recreation Center Tonight for Residents

Salt spreaders in operation and continue to prepare for icy road conditions

The City of Atlanta announced today that Rosel Fann Recreation Center will re-open from 8 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. Tuesday for residents who may be adversely affected by tonight's frigid weather.

Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta Fire & Rescue and EMS personnel will be at the recreation center. The AFRD will have an Advance Life Support Unit assigned to the facility during the operational hours on a rotational basis and a First-Aid station also will be on-site.

City staff will provide blankets, cots and water to residents who come to the center which is located at 365 Cleveland Ave. SE, Atlanta, GA 30354. The City strongly encourages all residents who lack adequate shelter or heat to seek assistance this evening. For more information, please call the Mayor’s Office of Constituent Services at (404) 330-6023.

If icy conditions develop overnight, the City of Atlanta encourages residents to stay off the roads. If driving is unavoidable, use extra care.

On Sunday evening, City maintenance began spreading a mixture of sand and salt over all bridges and overpasses and segments of street with steep gradients using a priority route system based on traffic volumes and locations of employment centers and hospitals.

Since beginning operations on Sunday, the Department of Public Works has responded to a total of six ice-related calls utilizing one sand truck spreader. Thirty-seven tons of the sand mixture have been dispersed along 14 bridges and 11 priority routes surrounding emergency facilities such as hospitals, fire stations and police stations.

All eight of the City’s sand trucks are operational. Public Works maintenance staff are working rotational 24 hour shifts as needed. GDOT and Fulton County are on standby should their assistance be needed.

The roadways have been divided into four categories:

First Priority - 100 centerline miles of roadway that must be kept open for the health and safety of citizens.
Second Priority - 83 miles of roadway to give each household a road within 2 miles that would be passable for public or private transit.
Third Priority - All other arterial and collector streets
Fourth Priority - Residential streets

In addition to completing priority routes, crews will canvass designated areas and respond to dispatched calls received from Police and other emergency personnel as well as reports from citizens. Motorists are reminded to exercise extreme caution as icy conditions can still be dangerous despite sanding.

Please call (404) 853-3227 to report icy road conditions, downed trees/debris.

Should the City be significantly impacted by the inclement weather conditions, all operations will be reflective of a “holiday” schedule which means that all solid waste pickups (household garbage, recycling, and yard trimmings) may be delayed by 1 day. Customers should continue to place their waste items out on the regularly scheduled pick up day. Work efforts on closed or blocked streets will be handled once streets are re-opened to vehicular traffic.