A dock in one of the Lake Forrest Drive homeowner’s backyards, which used to have water surrounding it before the lake was drained in 2016 by the city of Sandy Springs. (Hannah Greco)
The Emergency Action Plan for DeKalb County’s Scott Candler Reservoirs in Dunwoody shows in blue the area expected to be almost instantly flooded if both dams failed. Other maps in the plan show the flood extending miles away. (John Ruch)