Sixteen years ago, the Albany City Council decided to build the wetlands known as Talking Water Gardens because members thought the city had to do something to cool treated wastewater in order to meet state rules. Now a lawyer for the city says no, the rules did not require it.
The City of Albany intends to maintain the constructed wetlands known as Talking Water Gardens as a place to enjoy nature even though the place no longer functions as part of the Albany and Millersburg wastewater treatment system.
Linn County’s “sleep driving” court case should have been over long ago. But it keeps dragging on. On Tuesday morning, Mandy Kenney showed up in Circuit Court for her scheduled trial for impaired driving. At least four law officers had been called to testify and were cooling their heels in the hall. But four other trials […]
Water Gardens: What repairs might cost
Depending on the method that is eventually chosen, repairing the leaks from Albany’s Talking Water Gardens could cost as much as $126 million, according to the city’s latest filing in its long-running lawsuit against the wetlands’ engineers.
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