The bike and I took the Cox Creek Path in Albany on Tuesday to see if the Union Pacific had made any progress replacing its trestle across the creek and the path. The video below, with bonus footage of a passing train, shows what I found.
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Tags: Albany parks, Cox Creek, Cox Creek trestle, homeless, Union Pacific, vagrant camps
Tags: Albany parks, Cox Creek, Cox Creek trestle, homeless, Union Pacific, vagrant camps
Cities face new mandate on river trash
As if cities like Albany don’t have enough to do, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing to list sections of the Willamette River as “impaired” by trash. This will trigger new regulations under the federal Clean Water Act, and cities likely will bear the brunt of a new mandate.
Tags: DEQ, environmental Quality, homeless camps, river trash, vagrant camps, volunteer cleanups, Wilalmette Riverkeeper, Willamette River