Barring an appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals, Albany’s program of keeping rainwater from new developments from reaching the Willamette River will start in 2015. It will come with significant new costs, and while the program makes sense as a concept, the people paying the bill might be happier if the benefits were as […]
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Tags: Albany City Council, Albany stormwater program, rainwater, Stormwater quality, TMDL, Willamette River
Tags: Albany City Council, Albany stormwater program, rainwater, Stormwater quality, TMDL, Willamette River
Dressed up: The corner of Santiam and Main
Bike rides through the east end of old Albany occasionally take me past the corner of Main Street and Santiam Road, the former site of the historic Cumberland Church. Now the corner has a new look.
Tags: Cumberland site, East Albany, Main and Santiam, pocket parks, rainwater, stormwater swale, street corner, Yohn Baldwin