Someone asked about what she had come across at Talking Water Gardens, the constructed wetlands Albany built to help cool wastewater. Was it a fountain? I went to find it:
The City of Albany has received the draft of a new permit to discharge treated wastewater, but the proposal ignores the problems with Talking Water Gardens, the $13 million treatment system that the city was forced to shut down.
The plan to supply Albany’s Talking Water Gardens with a pump from Cox Creek has hit a snag. I noticed this on a bike ride to the constructed wetlands on Thursday evening.
Water has resumed flowing at Talking Water Gardens, the constructed wetlands that Albany was forced to let dry up this summer.
The continued shutdown of Albany’s Talking Water Gardens as a wastewater treatment system defies common sense. So I asked the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to explain.
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.
Bulletin from the path beat: Fence is fixed
Nobody has been waiting for this bit of non-news from my bike rides on Albany bikeways, but here it is anyway: The fence on Cox Creek Path has been repaired.
Tags: Cox Creek path, falling trees, fence repairs, storm damage, Talking Water Gardens