A reader’s email sent me back to Albany’s Talking Water Gardens on Friday. Let me explain:
On Wednesday the bike took me to Albany’s Talking Water Gardens once again, this time to see for myself that water was back in the ponds. It was. A little bit anyway.
It’s too late now, probably. Too late for what? For changing the name of Talking Water Gardens, the constructed wetlands that were supposed to cool and further treat the already treated wastewater coming out of the Albany-Millersburg sewage treatment plant.
Every once in a while Albany’s Talking Water Gardens lure me for a bike ride on the gravel trails that wind around the ponds and waterfalls, all dry now because the water treatment function of the system has been shut off.
The Cox Creek Path often takes me past Albany’s Talking Water Gardens, dormant now for the second year in a row. The question is whether this wastewater treatment installation, completed in 2012 at a cost of about $14 million, will ever be used again.
This is the year the Waverly Drive bridge on Cox Creek will finally be replaced with a new one.
A move, maybe, in Talking Waters lawsuit
Nine years after Albany sued the engineers who designed Talking Water Gardens, the lawsuit remains pending in Linn County Circuit. But now there may be a development.
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