{"id":14482,"date":"2022-07-28T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=14482"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:39:34","slug":"news-sen-ossoffs-legislation-to-prevent-flooding-in-atlanta-passes-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/news-sen-ossoffs-legislation-to-prevent-flooding-in-atlanta-passes-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Legislation to Prevent Flooding in Atlanta Passes U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s legislation to prevent flooding in and around Atlanta passed the U.S. Senate today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;<em>City of Atlanta Stormwater Management Act<\/em>&nbsp;will help the City better design water supply and storage systems, and upgrade water treatment and distribution systems and wastewater treatment systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wrote and passed this bill to help reduce the risk of devastating flooding for homes and businesses in Metro Atlanta,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock co-sponsored the Senate legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) introduced the House companion.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate passed the bill with bipartisan support as part of this year\u2019s Water Resources and Development Act Reauthorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s legislation to prevent flooding in and around Atlanta passed the U.S. Senate today. Sen. Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;City of Atlanta Stormwater Management Act&nbsp;will help the City better design water supply and storage systems, and upgrade water treatment and distribution systems and wastewater treatment systems. \u201cI wrote and passed this bill to help [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14482","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14484,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14482\/revisions\/14484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}