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Sewage plant: The sludge saga continues

Written April 19th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
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Every few years I take a new photo outside Albany’s sewage treatment plant to illustrate yet another step in the city’s long-running struggle to overcome the fact that part of it doesn’t work.

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Suit details city damage claims

Written December 7th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
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Albany is asserting damage claims totaling some $84 million in the lawsuit it has filed over problems at the city’s wastewater treatment plant and the nearby constructed wetlands, the Talking Water Gardens.

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Stink solution proves elusive

Written May 31st, 2016 by Hasso Hering
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Residents downwind from the Albany-Millersburg Water Reclamation Facility — you can call it the Albany sewage treatment plant if you want — apparently will have to put up with the continued failure of one aspect of the $70 million plant for quite another while.

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Still struggling with stinky sludge

Written June 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
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Albany just can’t seem to catch a break with the problem of solid waste at the joint Albany-Millersburg sewage treatment plant. As the weather warmed this spring, on bike rides past the plant and downwind from it, I once again noticed the outhouse odor that caused neighbors to petition the Albany City Council for a solution […]

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