This scene looks familiar, doesn’t it? That’s because along Cox Creek in Albany, trees falling down and smashing the chain link fence of Talking Water Gardens is a regular thing.
Late October is as good a time as any for a visit to Albany’s Talking Water Gardens, and I did a circuit of the major paths on the bike in the middle of last week.
On a bike ride Wednesday, I stopped at the bridge across Cox Creek on Waverly Drive. Except that the pavement has become more pitted, little has changed there since the bridge was briefly closed and then restricted to one driving lane in 2005.
Go down toward the river from the parking lot at Albany’s Talking Water Gardens and turn left. Now you’re on a dirt trail through the brush that leads to Bowman Park.
The Talking Water Gardens between Albany and Millersburg look a little odd this spring. There’s less water in the ponds.
You can get to the Talking Water Gardens this week, but you’ll have to park a little farther away.
No more ‘talking’ at Water Gardens
Talking Water Gardens once was hailed as an environmental success. But now, as a system to further treat already treated wastewater, it has been shut down.
Tags: constructed wetlands, Department of Environmental Quality, Talking Water Gardens, Talking Waters, wastewater