Something you don’t see every day: A Portland & Western maintenance pickup parked on the trestle where it crosses the Dave Clark Riverfront Path.
Riverfront beat: What’s up along the Clark Path
Written May 25th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
So what’s new on my riverfront beat, you may be wondering. Besides a doll having been propped up and left by the side of the Dave Clark Path?
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany riverfront, Dave Clark Path, Riverside Interceptor, The Banks apartments
Tags: Albany riverfront, Dave Clark Path, Riverside Interceptor, The Banks apartments
Bike path lines: An idea worth copying
Written April 16th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Here’s a helpful little detail Albany might want to copy on couple blind curves on the riverside Dave Clark Bike Path: A center line intended to keep cyclists and others from possibly running into each other. I happened to notice such a line on ODOT’s Bikeway along Highway 34. The painted stripe goes down the […]
Pump station on path worries neighbors
Written February 12th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Some Albany residents have become concerned about plans to build a sewer pump station on the Dave Clark Path near where they live in the Iron Works townhouses on Water Avenue. But the design is more than half done, and the city says changing it would cause delays and a significant increase in the cost.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany council, Dave Clark Path, Iron Works townhouses, Riverfront Interceptor, sewer pump station
Tags: Albany council, Dave Clark Path, Iron Works townhouses, Riverfront Interceptor, sewer pump station
$13 million to prevent sewer overflows
Written December 22nd, 2018 by Hasso Hering
For years, the city of Albany has posted pollution warnings near sewer outfalls on the Willamette River when heavy rainstorms overloaded the system. To fix this, the city now expects to spend $13 million borrowed from the state.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Dave Clark Path, Oregon DEQ, Riverfront Interceptor, sewer overflows
Tags: Dave Clark Path, Oregon DEQ, Riverfront Interceptor, sewer overflows
New warning signs on the Clark Path
Written December 14th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
New signs have sprouted along a segment of Albany’s Dave Clark Path, opening the possibility that people could be cited for trespassing if they camp on the riverbank below.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Dave Clark Path, Edgewater Village, homeless, illegal camping, trespassing, unauthorized camping, Willamette
Tags: Dave Clark Path, Edgewater Village, homeless, illegal camping, trespassing, unauthorized camping, Willamette
Eighteen years (or so) of tagging…
Written September 23rd, 2018 by Hasso Hering
If memory serves, these woodchip hopper rail cars got their new paint schemes — honoring the Oregon Ducks and the anti-drug DARE program — in about 2000 or before. And look at the colorful messes created by taggers in all the years since.
Posted in: Commentary
Tags: DARE rail car, Dave Clark Path, Oregon and Oregon state rail cars, Portland & Western
Tags: DARE rail car, Dave Clark Path, Oregon and Oregon state rail cars, Portland & Western
Concerns on Clark Path: The city listens
Written September 21st, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Trash left by transients along the riverfront and Dave Clark Path may be an intractable problem, but Albany city officials are not giving up. They will consider even cameras to deter or detect illegal camping.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: code enforcement, Dave Clark Path, transients, trash left by transients, video surveillance
Tags: code enforcement, Dave Clark Path, transients, trash left by transients, video surveillance
No big deal: Noted on the riverfront
Written May 7th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Some days there is nothing to see on my riverfront beat. But sometimes there is, even if it’s nothing big. Three items caught my attention Monday afternoon.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany riverfront, Bowman Park, C&L Water Solutions, Cox Creek path, Dave Clark Path
Tags: Albany riverfront, Bowman Park, C&L Water Solutions, Cox Creek path, Dave Clark Path
Riverside path blocked for sewer project
Now it has started — the big Albany sewer project intended to prevent overflows to the Willamette River during heavy rains. The construction will, among other things, distrupt the middle section of the Dave Clark Riverside Path, where an underground lift station or pump will be installed.
Tags: Dave Clark Path, Pacific Excavation Inc., Riverfront Interceptor