Georgia’s infrastructure encompasses everything from your neighborhood roads to the dam on West Point Lake to the community school to the Port of Savannah. Our state’s infrastructure is vital to the economy, safety, environment and quality of life of all Georgians. Once every five years, the Georgia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assesses the state’s infrastructure. Using a simple A to F school report card format, the 2019 Georgia Infrastructure Report Card provides a comprehensive assessment of current infrastructure conditions and needs, assigns grades and makes recommendations for how to raise the grades. The Report Card is written by ASCE members in Georgia who assign the grades according to the following seven criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, and resilience. This is the same criteria used by the national ASCE to develop the Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.
OVERVIEW
The 2019 Georgia Infrastructure Report Card was modeled after the national ASCE Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. A committee of nearly 50 practicing civil engineers was assembled to collect, review and evaluate data, and develop grades and recommendations. The committee volunteers were organized into fourteen major categories of infrastructure. Each committee’s assessment is captured in the corresponding section of the Report Card. Twelve of these categories were evaluated in the 2014 Report Card on Georgia’s Infrastructure and two new categories, Ports and Rail were added. Data sources used by the respective subcommittees included: federal, state and local agencies; consultants; and industry. In some cases, key information and data were collected from phone conversations with experts in the field.
The 2019 grading criteria is similar to that used in 2014. Each of the 14 sections was rated on the basis of condition, capacity, operation and maintenance, funding, future need, public safety and resilience. Resilience is the ability to prevent or protect against significant multi-hazard threats and incidents and the ability to quickly recover critical services.
For each infrastructure category, each of the grading criteria was assigned a weighting factor. In most categories, more weight was placed on condition, capacity, funding and future needs because these are core criteria and better data were usually available for evaluation in these areas. The data were evaluated against objective grading criteria and a grade was assigned. Grades were assigned as follows:
A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 51-69%
F = 50% or lower
The section for each infrastructure category was peer reviewed by a group of technical experts not involved with their initial preparation. They were also reviewed by ASCE National.
REPORT CARD
Get The Facts
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/georgia/
National Report Card
2017 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure
Past Georgia Report Card
2009 ASCE Georgia Infrastructure Report Card
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
Thank You to all the dedicated volunteers who made this report possible:
REPORT CARD AUTHORS
Co-Chair – Daniel Agramonte, PE, F.ASCE, O’Brien & Gere
Co-Chair – Rebecca Shelton, PE, F.ASCE, Gwinnett County Water Resources
Secretary – Julie Secrist, PE, M.ASCE, Planners and Engineers Collaborative, Inc.
Anita Atkinson, PE, M.ASCE, Patterson & Dewar Engineers
Annie Blissit, PE, M.ASCE, Gresham Smith
Benjamin Moss, PE, M.ASCE, Arcadis
Bobby Sauer, PE, M.ASCE, Georgia Environmental Protection Division
Chloe Brantley, A.M.ASCE, Southeastern Engineering, Inc.
Christopher B. Novack, PE, Georgia Ports Authority
George A. Kelley, PE, F.ASCE, Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Jared Ogonor, PE, F.ASCE, Parsons
Jason Christian, PhD, A.M.ASCE, University of Georgia
Jeffery Chiu, Esq., PE, F.ASCE, Kun-young Chiu & Associates, Inc.
Joshua M. Orton, PE, F.ASCE, CDM Smith
Justin Leaders, PE, M.ASCE, Barge Design Solutions, Inc.
Katherine McLeod Gurd, PE, F.ASCE, AECOM
Keith Cole, PE, F.ASCE, Ramboll
Kelen Shostak, PE, F.ASCE, KADAS Inc
Larry Prescott, PE, M.ASCE, HNTB
Lisa S. Woods, PE, F.SEI, F.ASCE, HNTB
Mark Hitchcock, PE, PMP, DBIA, Jacobs
Mark Jones, PE, M.ASCE, DRMP, Inc.
Marsha Anderson Bomar, AICP, ENV SP, F.ASCE, Gateway 85 CID
Matthew Tanner, PE, LEED AP, M.ASCE, Breedlove Land Planning, Inc.
Michael C. Ray, PE, PMP, F.ASCE, Legis Consultancy, Inc.
Olivia J. Mast, Undergraduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rachel Dicke, PE, M.ASCE, Mott MacDonald
Rachel Jones, PE, M.ASCE, Gwinnett County Water Resources
Randal C. Weitman, PE, Georgia Ports Authority
Richard Morales, PE, F.ASCE, LB Foster
Rick Gurney, PE, F.ASCE, Keck & Wood
Robert Renwick, PE, Keck & Wood
Sam Crampton, PE, CFM, Dewberry
Sam Wade, PE, M.ASCE, Infrastructure Consulting & Engineering
Stefka Vacheva, EIT, A.M.ASCE, Heath & Lineback Engineers, Inc.
Steven Seachrist, PE, M.ASCE, Gwinnett County Water Resources
Tim Bricker, PE, M.ASCE, Kemron Environmental Services, Inc.
Wayne Haynie, PE, M.ASCE, Newton County Water & Sewerage Authority
ADVISORY BOARD
Chair – Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, PhD, F.ASCE, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Bledsoe, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, Professor of Resilient Engineering, University of Georgia
Ching-Hua Huang, PhD, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fatih Oncul, PhD, M.ASCE, Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University
Glenn Rix, PhD, PE, M.ASCE, Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Geosyntec Consultants
Gustavo Maldonado, PhD, PE, M.ASCE, Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
John Bartholdi III, PhD, Professor of ISYE, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karen Dixon, PhD, PE, Texas Transportation Institute
Kari Watkins, PhD, PE, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marilyn Brown, PhD, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Simmons, PhD, Director, Energy Policy and Innovation Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephan Durham, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, Professor, University of Georgia
Steve McCutcheon, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, University of Georgia
Terry Sturm, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy Lieuwen, PhD, Professor, NAE, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valerie Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yichang James Tsai, PhD, PE, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
EXTERNAL REVIEWERS
Patricia Harris Morehead, Chatham County Transit
Carol Comer, Georgia Department of Transportation
ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Melissa Wheeler, M.ASCE, Georgia Power Company
Michael L. Sullivan, JD, ACEC Georgia
Raymond J. Wilke, PE, F.ASCE, GeoRay Inc.
Richard L. Boudreau, PE, M.ASCE, Boudreau Engineering, Inc.
Santanu Sinharoy, PE, M.ASCE, United Consulting
Srinivas Jalla, PE, PMP, M.ASCE, Gresham Smith
Stuart A. Moring, PE, F.ASCE, City of Roswell, Retired
ASCE STAFF
Anna Denecke