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.
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.
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.
Replacing Waverly bridge: This is the year
This is the year the Waverly Drive bridge on Cox Creek will finally be replaced with a new one.
Tags: Cox Creek, Linn County Road Department, Simpson Park, Talking Water Gardens, Waverly Drive bridge